325 research outputs found
Query Expansion for Survey Question Retrieval in the Social Sciences
In recent years, the importance of research data and the need to archive and
to share it in the scientific community have increased enormously. This
introduces a whole new set of challenges for digital libraries. In the social
sciences typical research data sets consist of surveys and questionnaires. In
this paper we focus on the use case of social science survey question reuse and
on mechanisms to support users in the query formulation for data sets. We
describe and evaluate thesaurus- and co-occurrence-based approaches for query
expansion to improve retrieval quality in digital libraries and research data
archives. The challenge here is to translate the information need and the
underlying sociological phenomena into proper queries. As we can show retrieval
quality can be improved by adding related terms to the queries. In a direct
comparison automatically expanded queries using extracted co-occurring terms
can provide better results than queries manually reformulated by a domain
expert and better results than a keyword-based BM25 baseline.Comment: to appear in Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Theory
and Practice of Digital Libraries 2015 (TPDL 2015
Astaxanthin production from Haematococcus pluvialis using photobioreactors
8th European Workshop Biotechnology of Microalgae. Nuthetal, Alemanha, 7-10 de Junho
First Annual Marine Monitoring Programme Report September 2005
This report provides an overview of the development of the Marine Monitoring Programme, a description of each component
of the programme, an overview of the current status of the components of the programme and an outline of the
implementation of the programme as at June 2005. This report is GBRMPA’s inaugural report for the Marine Monitoring
Programme. The structure of this report will form the basis of Annual Reports from the GBRMPA for the life of the Reef Water
Quality Protection Plan Marine Monitoring Programme
Systems, interactions and macrotheory
A significant proportion of early HCI research was guided by one very clear vision: that the existing theory base in psychology and cognitive science could be developed to yield engineering tools for use in the interdisciplinary context of HCI design. While interface technologies and heuristic methods for behavioral evaluation have rapidly advanced in both capability and breadth of application, progress toward deeper theory has been modest, and some now believe it to be unnecessary. A case is presented for developing new forms of theory, based around generic “systems of interactors.” An overlapping, layered structure of macro- and microtheories could then serve an explanatory role, and could also bind together contributions from the different disciplines. Novel routes to formalizing and applying such theories provide a host of interesting and tractable problems for future basic research in HCI
Conclave: ontology-driven measurement of semantic relatedness between source code elements and problem domain concepts
Software maintainers are often challenged with source code changes to improve software systems, or eliminate defects, in unfamiliar programs. To undertake these tasks a sufficient understanding of the system (or at least a small part of it) is required. One of the most time consuming tasks of this process is locating which parts of the code are responsible for some key functionality or feature. Feature (or concept) location techniques address this problem. This paper introduces Conclave, an environment for software analysis, and in particular the Conclave-Mapper tool that provides a feature location facility. This tool explores natural language terms used in programs (e.g. function and variable names), and using textual analysis and a collection of Natural Language Processing techniques, computes synonymous sets of terms. These sets are used to score relatedness between program elements, and search queries or problem domain concepts, producing sorted ranks of program elements that address the search criteria, or concepts. An empirical study is also discussed to evaluate the underlying feature location technique.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A Novel Combined Term Suggestion Service for Domain-Specific Digital Libraries
Interactive query expansion can assist users during their query formulation
process. We conducted a user study with over 4,000 unique visitors and four
different design approaches for a search term suggestion service. As a basis
for our evaluation we have implemented services which use three different
vocabularies: (1) user search terms, (2) terms from a terminology service and
(3) thesaurus terms. Additionally, we have created a new combined service which
utilizes thesaurus term and terms from a domain-specific search term
re-commender. Our results show that the thesaurus-based method clearly is used
more often compared to the other single-method implementations. We interpret
this as a strong indicator that term suggestion mechanisms should be
domain-specific to be close to the user terminology. Our novel combined
approach which interconnects a thesaurus service with additional statistical
relations out-performed all other implementations. All our observations show
that domain-specific vocabulary can support the user in finding alternative
concepts and formulating queries.Comment: To be published in Proceedings of Theories and Practice in Digital
Libraries (TPDL), 201
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