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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Information discovery"”.
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Linking Textual Resources to Support Information Discovery
A vast amount of information is today stored in the form of textual documents, many of which are available online. These documents come from different sources and are of different types. They include newspaper articles, books, corporate reports, encyclopedia entries and research papers. At a …
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Content based video retrieval via spatial-temporal information discovery.
… framework, however, ignores spatial and temporal information contained in videos, which plays a fundamental role in unveiling semantic meanings. The information includes not only the spatial layout of visual content on a still frame (image), but also temporal changes across the sequential frames. …
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Content routing : a scalable architecture for network-based information discovery
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Design of virtual worlds for accessing information : discovery of user preferences.
… of 3-dimensional virtual worlds for accessing information. No literature was found which dealt with this topic, and it was therefore thought that, rather than ask users to make a selection from arbitrarily-chosen designs, it would be informative to consult the users from the beginning of the …
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Essays on Sell-Side Analysts
… examines the determinants and consequences of information discovery and stock timing roles by sell-side analysts. We also re-examine reiterations of prior recommendations by sell-side analysts. In Chapter 1, the contribution is to document that analysts add value by engaging in discovery of …
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Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
… to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of information consumption do not support encountering sufficient …
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Trust based app marketing : design, implementation and evaluation
… network embeddedness, customizability, and information discovery) affect the efficacy of a trust-based app. I build a Flash-based design environment capable of basic image manipulations, I design a web engine that organizes tens of thousands of images used in the design environment, and I …
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Semantic linking and personalization in context
… is called SEMPort with the aim of improving information discovery and information sharing using the Semantic Web technologies. We also provide different Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) methods using ontology-based user models. In our second contribution, we introduce and implement a novel …
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Optimising information retrieval from the web in low-bandwidth environments
The Internet has potential to deliver information to Web users that have no other way of getting to those resources. However, information on the Web is scattered without any proper semantics for classifying them and thus this makes information discovery difficult. Thus, to ease the querying of this …
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Focus-based Interactive Visualization for Structured Data
Information visualization, a field that studies visual representations of abstract data where no spatial representation is available, has been playing an essential role in assisting people to understand the vast amount of information created by modern technology. Visualizing large complex …
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Individo vaidmenys televizijoje. Socialinis ekrano žmonių pjūvis /
… object because it has positive aspects (information, discovery opportunities) and also for negative (irresponsible view into facts, law defiance, bad influence for youngest users groups, too big commerciality).Finding parallels by comparing television public model with model which was …
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Analysing the content of Web 2.0 documents by using a hybrid approach
… text description of the image, thus limiting the information discovery to material with good text descriptions. A similar issue is faced by text based search provided by Web 2.0 applications. Images with less description might not contain adequate information while images with no description will …
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The incorporation of web technologies by university libraries in the Southern African Development Community to implement user-centred services
… to quality and relevant scholarly and scientific information in support of the curricula and research programmes. In fulfilling their core functions, university libraries are increasingly adopting an array of web technologies to deliver quality services to their user community. The aim of this …
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Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
Problems in subject access to information organization systems have been under investigation for a long time. Focusing on item-level information discovery and access, researchers have identified a range of subject access problems, including quality and application of metadata, as well as the …
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Re-examining and re-conceptualising enterprise search and discovery capability: towards a model for the factors and generative mechanisms for search task outcomes.
… to find and exploit their own corporate information. However, there is evidence that finding information in the workplace using search engine technology has remained difficult, with socio-technical elements largely neglected in the literature. Explication of the factors and generative …