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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Search technologies"”.
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980
… harness computer technology to automate legal research. After three years of investigation, it established the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization and contracted a local computer company, Data Corporation, to develop an electronic legal research service. Despite initial skepticism and …
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Smart Image Search System Using Personalized Semantic Search Method
… numbers of information on the internet nowadays, search technologies are widely used in various fields. Achieving the most relevant search result for the users becomes a big challenge now. While the traditional semantic search technologies seem to achieve the most relevant search result, however, …
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Comparative evaluation of conventional search architectures and large language model-based approaches
Search technologies are fundamental to how individuals and organisations access, interpret, and synthesise information. Conventional search engines such as Google and Bing rely on keyword-based indexing and symbolic ranking algorithms that provide transparency, verifiability, and computational …
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A legal and economic analysis of non-fungible tokens on the art market
… include the development of reverse image search technologies to mitigate copyright infringement and foster a more robust legal environment. Economically, the thesis compares the valuation of NFTs to traditional art portfolios, acknowledging the difficulty in assessing their intrinsic value …
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Descriptive Phrases: Understanding Natural Language Metadata
Fast development of information and communication technologies made available vast amounts of heterogeneous information. With these amounts growing faster and faster, information integration and search technologies are becoming a key for the success of information society. To handle such amounts …
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Centering the Disabled User Experience of Health Information in a World Driven by Artificial Intelligence: A Mixed Methods Investigation
… information is especially pressing. Internet search technologies are often touted as empowering disabled people who seek healthcare information online, but does this depiction reflect reality? This dissertation encompasses three studies assessing disabled user experiences in finding health …
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A Bandwidth-Conserving Architecture for Crawling Virtual Worlds
… three-dimensional (3D) dynamic presentation technologies that challenge traditional search technologies. As 3D environments become both more prevalent and more fragmented, the need for a data crawler and distributed search service will continue to grow. By increasing the visibility of content …
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Exploring Strategies to Prevent Harm from Web Search
Web search, the process of seeking and finding information online, is an ubiquitous activity engrained in the lives of many individuals and much of broader society. This activity, which has brought many benefits to individuals and society, has also opened the door to many harms, such as echo …
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Informed selection and use of training examples for knowledge refinement.
… of possible refinements demands a heuristic search. Refinement tools typically use hill-climbing search to identify suitable repairs but run the risk of getting caught in local optima. A novel contribution of this thesis is solving the local optima problem by converting the hill-climbing …
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Integration of search theories and evidential analysis to Web-wide Discovery of information for decision support
The main contribution of this research is that it addresses the issues associated with traditional information gathering and presents a novel semantic approach method to Web-based discovery of previously unknown intelligence for effective decision making. Itprovides a comprehensive theoretical …
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Opinion driven decision support system
… opinions, that is to combine the strengths of search technologies with opinion analysis and mining tools to provide a powerful decision making platform. This special platform is called an Opinion-Driven Decision Support System (ODSS) - a platform that enables users to find and analyze entities …
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Teorias sociais implícitas nos índices e sistemas de indicadores: uma contribuição estatística ao estudo do desenvolvimento
… and KDD stands out amid the state of the art search technologies employed to study this subject as a promising method, since it includes the modeling of social concepts and to identify and measure various relationships between factors associated with the phenomenon. From the theory of …