Knowledge and user-generated content is proliferating on the web in scientific publications, information portals and online social media. This knowledge explosion has continued to outpace technological innovation in efficient information access technologies. In this paper, we describe methods and technologies for “Conversational Search” as an innovative solution to facilitate easier information access and reduce the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘information retrieval’
10 Jun
Using Content Analysis to Investigate The Research Paths Chosen by Scientists over Time
We present an application of a clustering technique to a large original dataset of SCI publications which is capable at disentangling the different research lines followed by a scientist, their duration over time and the intensity of effort devoted to each of them. Information is obtained by means of software-assisted content analysis, based on the [...]
4 Sep
iReMedI – Intelligent Retrieval from Medical Information
Effective encoding of information is one of the keys to qualitative problem solving. Our aim is to explore Knowledge Representation techniques that capture meaningful word associations occurring in documents. We have developed iReMedI, a TCBR-based problem solving system as a prototype to demonstrate our idea. For representation we have used a combination of NLP and [...]
1 Jul
Subjectivity Analysis for Questions in QA Communities
In this paper we investigate how to automatically determine the subjectivity orientation of questions posted by real users in community question answering (CQA) portals. Subjective questions seek answers containing private states, such as personal opinion and experience. In contrast, objective questions request objective, verifiable information, often with support from reliable sources. Knowing the question orientation [...]
1 Mar
Discovering Semantic Biomedical Relations Utilizing The Web
To realize the vision of a Semantic Web for Life Sciences, discovering relations between resources is essential. It is very difficult to automatically extract relations from Web pages expressed in natural language formats. On the other hand, because of the explosive growth of information, it is difficult to manually extract the relations. In this paper [...]
31 Aug
Adapting Associative Classification to Text Categorization
Associative classification, which originates from numerical data mining, has been applied to deal with text data recently. Text data is firstly digitalized to database of transactions, and then training and prediction is actually conducted on the derived numerical dataset. This intuitive strategy has demonstrated quite good performance. However, it doesn’t take into consideration the inherent [...]
1 Oct
Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Discovering Gene-to-Gene Relationships
Partitioning closely related genes into clusters has become an important element of practically all statistical analyses of microarray data. A number of computer algorithms have been developed for this task. Although these algorithms have demonstrated their usefulness for gene clustering, some basic problems remain. This paper describes our work on extracting functional keywords from MEDLINE [...]
1 Jan
Interactive Case-Based Reasoning for Precise Information Retrieval
The knowledge explosion has continued to outpace technological innovation in search engines and knowledge management systems. It is increasingly difficult to find relevant information, not just on the World Wide Web at large but even in domain- specific medium-sized knowledge bases—online helpdesks, maintenance records, technical repositories, travel databases, e-commerce sites, and many others. Despite advances [...]
1 Mar
Scaling Spreading Activation for Information Retrieval
The Information Retrieval Intelligent Assistant (IRIA) project applies principles of memory retrieval from cognitive science to the problem of information retrieval from large heterogeneous databases. IRIA uses spreading activation over a semantic network for information retrieval, a technique which has proven effective in a variety of tasks. However, some of the very features which motivated [...]
1 Jun
IRIA: The Information Research Intelligent Assistant
The explosion of information in the modern environment demands the ability to collect, organize, manage, and search large amounts of information across a wide variety of real-world applications. The primary tools available for such tasks are large-scale database systems and keyword-based document search techniques. However, such tools are rapidly proving inadequate: traditional database systems do [...]
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