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Hypermedia Genes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 87

Hypermedia Genes

1. Introduction -- The structure of this lecture -- Not addressed here -- How to use this lecture -- 2. Original visions and concepts -- Knowledge and association -- Non-linearity and navigation -- Augmentation and serendipity -- 3. Steps in the evolution -- Original systems -- Reference systems -- Data models -- Open hypermedia architectures -- Component-based applications -- Group and collaborative behavior -- The media evolution -- 4. Information and structured documents -- The origins -- Reference standards -- 5. Web-based environments -- 6. Some research trends -- Adaptive hypermedia -- Social linking -- 7. A framework of traits -- 8. A phylogenetic analysis -- An evolutionary analysis of hypermedia systems -- The phylogenetic trees and diagrams -- Discussion of the analysis -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies.

Organizational Change, Evolution, Structuring and Awareness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Organizational Change, Evolution, Structuring and Awareness

This final report on the Esprit project ORCHESTRA deals with the design and development of an advanced groupware environment. It provides a global perspective on the project from the technical, research and development, and marketing points of view.

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 77

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

Many information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well on average, the quality of results returned for some of the queries is poor. Thus, it is desirable that IR systems will be able to identify "difficult" queries so they can be handled properly. Understanding why some queries are inherently more difficult than others is essential for IR, and a good answer to this important question will help search engines to reduce the variance in performance, hence better servicing their customer needs. Estimating the query difficulty is an attempt to quantify the quality of search results retrieved ...

The Answer Machine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

The Answer Machine

The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content analytics to software buyers, knowledge managers, and searchers who want to understand and design effective online environments. The book describes how search evolved from an expert-only to an end user tool. It provides an overview of search engines, categorization and clustering, natural language processing, content analytics, and visualization technologies. Detailed profiles for Web search, eCommerce search, eDiscovery, and enterprise search contrast the types of users, uses, tasks, technologies, and interaction designs for each. These variabl...

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 563

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-09-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

Since its inception in 1997,the EuropeanConferenceon Researchand Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has come a long way, creating a strong interdisciplinarycommunityofresearchersandpractitionersinthe?eldofdigital libraries. We are proud to present the proceedings of ECDL 2005, the ninth conference in this series, which, following Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), Paris (1999), Lisbon (2000), Darmstadt (2001), Rome (2002), Trondheim (2003), and Bath (2004), took place on September 18–23, 2005 in Vienna, Austria. ECDL 2005 featured separate calls for paper and poster submissions, resu- ing in 130 full papers and 32 posters being submitted to the conference. All - pers were subject...

On The Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

On The Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors

The time-worn aphorism "close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades" is clearly inadequate. Close also counts in golf, shuffleboard, archery, darts, curling, and other games of accuracy in which hitting the precise center of the target isn't to be expected every time, or in which we can expect to be driven from the target by skilled opponents. This lecture is not devoted to sports discussions, but to efficient algorithms for determining pairs of closely related web pages -- and a few other situations in which we have found that inexact matching is good enough; where proximity suffices. We will not, however, attempt to be comprehensive in the investigation of probabilistic algorithms, a...

Images in Social Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 101

Images in Social Media

This book focuses on the methodologies, organization, and communication of digital image collection research that utilizes social media content. ("Image" is here understood as a cultural, conventional, and commercial—stock photo—representation.) The lecture offers expert views that provide different interpretations of images and their potential implementations. Linguistic and semiotic methodologies as well as eye-tracking research are employed to both analyze images and comprehend how humans consider them, including which salient features generally attract viewers' attention. This literature review covers image—specifically photographic—research since 2005, when major social media pl...

Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 91

Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments

Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes. Serendipity, however, is evident in many fields of research, in organizations, in everyday life—and there is more to it than luck implies. While the phenomenon is strongly associated with in person interactions with people, places, and things, most attention of late has focused on its preservation and facilitation within digital information environments. Serendipity's association with unexpected, positive user experiences and outcomes has spu...

Information Retrieval Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Information Retrieval Evaluation

Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation methodologies in use today. The retrieval community has been extremely fortunate to have such a well-grounded evaluation paradigm during a period when most of the human language technologies were just developing. This lecture has the goal of explaining where these evaluation methodologies came from and how they have continued to adapt to the vastly changed environment in the search engine world today. The lecture starts with a discussion of the early evaluation of information retrieval systems, starting with th...

The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I

We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the "palmtop" and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future hold? This book provides an important update on the rapidly expanding field of personal information management (PIM). Part I (Always and Forever) introduces the essentials of PIM. Information is personal for many reasons. It's the information on our hard drives we couldn't bear to lose. It's the information about us that we don't want to share. It's the distracting information demanding our attention even ...