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The Role of E-Vocabularies in the Description and Retrieval of Digital Educational Resources
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Fernández-Pampillón, Ana M. – Education Sciences, 2017
Vocabularies are linguistic resources that make it possible to access knowledge through words. They can constitute a mechanism to identify, describe, explore, and access all the digital resources with informational content pertaining to a specific knowledge domain. In this regard, they play a key role as systems for the representation and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Electronic Libraries, Metadata, Information Management
Query Classification and Study of University Students' Search Trends
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Maabreh, Majdi A.; Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.; Alsmadi, Izzat M. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: This study is an attempt to develop an automatic identification method for Arabic web queries and divide them into several query types using data mining. In addition, it seeks to evaluate the impact of the academic environment on using the internet. Design/methodology/approach: The web log files were collected from one of the higher…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Web Sites, Search Engines, Classification
Image Manipulation and User-Supplied Index Terms
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Schultz, Leah – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates the relationships between the use of a zoom tool, the terms they supply to describe the image, and the type of image being viewed. Participants were assigned to two groups, one with access to the tool and one without, and were asked to supply terms to describe forty images, divided into four categories: landscape, portrait,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Visual Aids
Navigation via Similarity: Automatic Linking Based on Semantic Closeness.
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Tudhope, Douglas; Taylor, Carl – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Discusses access methods in hypermedia and information retrieval and describes a research project in which similarity measures have been extended to include imprecise matching over different dimensions of structured classification schemes. The semantic similarity of information units forms the basis for the automatic construction of links and is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automation, Classification, Hypermedia
Visualization Schemes for Domain Novices Exploring a Topic Space: The Navigation Classification Scheme.
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Leide, John E.; Large, Andrew; Beheshti, Jamshid; Brooks, Martin; Cole, Charles – Information Processing & Management, 2003
Describes the visualization of a navigation classification scheme in an information retrieval (IR) system. Highlights include Charles Cutter's rules for creating a dictionary catalog; user needs; an example of undergraduate research using this scheme; and user interaction with the IR system. (Contains 64 references.) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources. Papers Presented at the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (34th, Urbana, Illinois, March 2-4, 1997).
Cochrane, Pauline Atherton, Ed.; Johnson, Eric H., Ed. – 1998
This proceedings represents and documents in part the 16 presentations made at the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. World Wide Web URLs that provide insight into each presentation are included. Presentations include: (1) "Hypostatizing Data Collections, Especially Bibliographic: Abstractions, Representations,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Classification, Data Processing