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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Thesauri"”.
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Retrieval effectiveness for OCR text using thesauri
This thesis reports on the effects of an automatic query expansion with a subject specific thesaurus on retrieval effectiveness for document collection consisting of OCR text; The investigation encompasses several experiments with a modern retrieval engine based on the probabilistic model. Each …
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Construção de thesauri: experimento empírico para a coleta de termos em formação profissional
A methodology for the construction of thesauri was developed. The method invilves the simultaneous application of two principles which govern the effective collection of terms: Literary Warrant and User Warrant. The information sources weretwo hundred and fifty periodical articles on Vocational …
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Thesaurus-aided learning for rule-based categorization of Ocr texts
… can be improved by using domain-specific thesauri. A rule-based categorizer was constructed consisting of a C++ program called C-KANT which consults documents and creates a program which can be executed by the CLIPS expert system shell. A series of tests using domain-specific thesauri …
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ERI Energy thesaurus
… energy terms are available, and there are other thesauri on specific aspects of energy, for example, coal, biomass, nuclear energy, there are few comprehensive energy thesauri. So far, no energy thesaurus applicable to South Africa, has been published. It was found that energy terms in the U.S. …
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A qualitative study of thesaurus integration for end-user searching
… for this thesis investigates the impact of thesauri on users' information searching behaviour, and the integration of thesauri into information searching interfaces in order to support the searching process. The work reported here consists of two preliminary studies, which served to refine …
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Building Ontology and Data Infrastructure for Semantic Web Applications
… ways of developing ontologies from existing thesauri which have been used to produce high-quality metadata for a very long time and how those ontologies can be used in information retrieval. The main research methods used are design science and action research. Extensive application to …
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The Development and Evaluation of an index language for energy research [Volume 2]
… energy terms are available, and there are other thesauri on specific aspects of energy, for example, coal, biomass, nuclear energy, there are few comprehensive energy thesauri. So far, no energy thesaurus applicable to South Africa, has been published. It was found that energy terms in the US. …
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Der Einsatz eines WIKIs als zentrales Kommunikationsinstrument für die Thesauruspflege an verteilten Bibliotheksstandorten
… der Dokumentationssprachen, insbesondere von Thesauri, im 20. Jhd. ein. Danach folgt die Darstellung der Genese und der Struktur des Standard-Thesaurus Wirtschaft sowie dessen Pflege und Weiterentwicklung. Dann erfolgt eine Einführung in die Geschichte der WikiWelt mit Beschreibung der …
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Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval
… controlled vocabularies, classification schemes, thesauri and ontologies—to organize, describe and navigate the information space. These resources are popular in libraries and specialist collections, but have proven too expensive and narrow to be applied to everyday webscale search. Wikipedia has …
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Description is a drag (and vice versa): classifying trans identities
… I examine the classificatory structures found in thesauri used in medical contexts, namely the DSM and ICD, and historically used to label queer identities, to define trans identities, and to police gender boundaries. In order to compile a body of contemporary trans language and concepts, I …
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Semantic Indexing via Knowledge Organization Systems: Applying the CIDOC-CRM to Archaeological Grey Literature
… together with concepts from English Heritage thesauri and glossaries.<br/><br/>The results demonstrate that the techniques can deliver semantic annotations of archaeological grey literature documents with respect to the domain conceptual models. Such semantic annotations have proven capable of …
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Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems
… vocabulary using integrated spatial and thematic thesauri. Semantic distance measures were<br/>employed to imprecisely match query terms, providing ranked lists of similar objects. A thematic measure was developed based on semantic-path traversals to expand artefact types. The project explored …
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La Caridad. Lecturas del hogar : historia, espíritu y memoria. Tesauro temático para la contextualización histórica de una publicación del siglo XIX
La descripción limitada de las publicaciones seriadas patrimoniales en Colombia ha abierto una brecha entre los acervos y quienes los investigan, afectando la consulta, la contextualización histórica y la reconstrucción de memoria. Tal es el caso de La Caridad: Lecturas del Hogar (1864-1906), …