Browsing a digital library: A new approach for the New Zealand digital library

Browsing is part of the information seeking process, used when information needs are ill-defined or unspecific. Browsing and searching are often interleaved during information seeking to accommodate changing awareness of information needs. Digital Libraries often support full-text search, but are not so helpful in supporting browsing. Described here is a novel browsing system created for the Greenstone software used by the New Zealand Digital Library that supports users in a more natural approach to the information seeking process. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

Підхід організації пошуку інформації в різнорідних корпоративних джерелах

Приведено огляд найбільш поширених інформаційно-пошукових систем. Увагу надано пошуку інформації в корпоративних сховищах. Розглядається новий підхід до поглибленого пошуку інформації в корпоративних джерелах, в основу якого покладено дворівневий пошук: тематичний пошук та відбір інформації в повнотекстову базу даних і ітераційний пошук в повнотекстовій базі даних.Resulted most used information-searching systems. Attention is paid to the information searching in corporate storages. Considered new approach of deep information searching in corporate information sources, which is based on the two-level search system: thematic search, selecting of information in full-text database and iterative search in a full-text database

Combining Concept- with Content-based Multimedia Retrieval

The arrival of the XML standard opened new doors for structured document search. Common approach in XML retrieval is to directly exploit the documents structure. However this is likely to fail for two reasons. First of all, it neglects the rich multimedia character of documents on the Internet, where a wide variety of multimedia objects can be found such as text, images and streaming video. Secondly, using the document structure as the basis for searching the content of a document can easily lead to semantical misinterpretation of the document's content. This chapter discusses an approach for searching rich multimedia document collections, that tackles these two problems using a combination of conceptual search and content-based retrieval

Prostitute or First Apostle? Critical Feminist Interpretation of John 4: 1-42 Over the Figure of the Samaritan Woman at Jacob's Well

The Bible is indeed written in a patriarchal culture and someone finds it desperate to search for the Bible texts that support equality as it provides insufficient passages of equality between men and women. Nonetheless, to use the feminist perspectives is pivotal in searching for equality in reading the Bible texts. It helps people to learn from the efforts made by women in the Bible in order to get out of their oppression and to not take for granted of their miserable situation. Thus in this paper, the author makes a reinterpretation effort on the text of John 4, 1- 42 which has been interpreted in gender bias. The interpretation uses the historical-critical method with a hermeneutic approach to investigation (suspicion) from a feminist perspective. Hermeneutic investigative approach is an approach that reads the text critically and with assumptions (initial suspicion) about the elements of power relations that exist in the text that are dominative and investigates the text. This new approach can result in a new understanding and appreciation of the figures and actions of the Samaritan woman who has been seen as a prostitute and a sinful woman

A novel approach to study realistic navigations on networks

We consider navigation or search schemes on networks which are realistic in the sense that not all search chains can be completed. We show that the quantity $\mu = \rho/s_d$, where $s_d$ is the average dynamic shortest distance and $\rho$ the success rate of completion of a search, is a consistent measure for the quality of a search strategy. Taking the example of realistic searches on scale-free networks, we find that $\mu$ scales with the system size $N$ as $N^{-\delta}$, where $\delta$ decreases as the searching strategy is improved. This measure is also shown to be sensitive to the distintinguishing characteristics of networks. In this new approach, a dynamic small world (DSW) effect is said to exist when $\delta \approx 0$. We show that such a DSW indeed exists in social networks in which the linking probability is dependent on social distances.Comment: Text revised, references added; accepted version in Journal of Statistical Mechanic

Internet Search Tactics

Purpose Bates' Information Search Tactics have been influential in the practice and teaching of online searching since they were published in 1979. This article is about using information search tactics to search the Internet, and presents a set of tactics useful in the practice and teaching of Internet searching. Design/methodology/approach Tactics used on the Internet were gathered from the literature, websites, and the author's experience of Internet searching. These were compared with the Information Search Tactics, and refined into a set of Internet Search Tactics. Findings The article presents 34 Internet Search Tactics: 18 of the original Bates tactics, interpreted in the context of the Internet, and 16 new tactics. While many of the information search tactics are relevant, effective Internet searching requires recognition of the role of relevancy ranking and full text searching in search engines. The uncontrolled nature of the Internet means that evaluation of information resources is an integral part of Internet searching, so a group of evaluation tactics have been proposed. Practical implications The tactics provide a framework for teaching effective Internet searching. Originality/value Bates' information search tactics do not appear to have been applied as a whole to searching the Internet. The proposed tactics will be useful for librarians and researchers who need to carry out effective searching on the Internet, and for information literacy education. Research into information seeking and search interfaces will be informed by the tactics

A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering

The treatment of complex questions with explanatory answers involves searching for arguments in texts. Because of the prominent role that discourse relations play in reflecting text-producers’ intentions, capturing the underlying structure of text constitutes a good instructor in this issue. From our extensive review, a system for automatic discourse analysis that creates full rhetorical structures in large scale Arabic texts is currently unavailable. This is due to the high computational complexity involved in processing a large number of hypothesized relations associated with large texts. Therefore, more practical approaches should be investigated. This paper presents a new Arabic Text Parser oriented for question answering systems dealing with لماذا “why” and كيف “how to” questions. The Text Parser presented here considers the sentence as the basic unit of text and incorporates a set of heuristics to avoid computational explosion. With this approach, the developed question answering system reached a significant improvement over the baseline with a Recall of 68% and MRR of 0.62