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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"document collection"”.
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Entity finding in a document collection using adaptive window sizes
… search engines work by returning a list of documents in response to queries. However, such engines are often inadequate when the information need of the user involves entities. This issue has led to the development of entity-search, which unlike normal web search does not aim at returning …
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Indexing and Searching Document Collections using Lucene
… important role. This thesis talks about indexing document collections and fetching the right information with the help of a database. The primary role of a database is to store the additional information which may be or may not be available in the document collection by itself. The indexing of …
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Examining the Application of Modular and Contextualised Ontology in Query Expansions for Information Retrieval
… search precision, i.e. retrieving relevant documents in the topmost ranked positions in a returned document list. Query experiments have required a novel search tool that can combine Semantic Web technologies in an otherwise traditional IR process using a Web document collection.
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Retrieval effectiveness for OCR text using thesauri
… 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 experiment is performed on two document collections. The first version of the …
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Unsupervised modeling of latent topics and lexical units in speech audio
… processing involves the automatic analysis of a collection of speech data in a completely unsupervised fashion without the benefit of any transcriptions or annotations of the data. In this thesis, we describe a zero-resource framework that automatically discovers important words, phrases and …
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Clustering based causal topic mining
… of extracting these events from the timestamped document collection in the form of topics that cause a change in a time-series. We develop a conceptual framework for that can be used to analyze different causal topic mining algorithms. We also propose two novel clustering based algorithms - …
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Template-Based Metadata Extraction for Heterogeneous Collection
… However, a number of organizations have legacy collections that lack metadata. The lack of metadata hampers not only the discovery and dispersion of these collections over the Web, but also their interoperability with other collections. Unfortunately, manual metadata creation is expensive and …
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Improving results for the 2009 and 2010 INEX focused tasks.
… response to a user's query. In past years entire documents which were considered to be relevant or highly correlating were returned to users. However with growth of the web and large numbers of XML documents, smaller elements or passages can be returned to the user for more precise results. This …
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A case study of the implementation of experiential education in Yukon K-12 schools
… implementation of EXED in Yukon schools. Data collection involved interviews with Yukon Department of Education (YDE) staff members, principals and teachers, document collection, and reflective note collection. Findings indicated that EXED was understood as more of a me~odology than a …
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Greener Golf Operations: A Comparative Case Study of Ontario Golf Courses Engaged in Environmental Sustainability Initiatives
… the issue of communicating ES initiatives. Data collection involved in-depth interviews, observations, and unobtrusive document collection. Environmental aspects of the examination were guided by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Requirements and Guidance for Organizers of Sustainable …
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Investigation on Applying Modular Ontology to Statistical Language Model for Information Retrieval
… query expansion (OQE) and ontology-based document classification (ODC). Research experiments have required development of an independent search tool that can combine the OQE and ODC in a traditional SLM-based information retrieval (IR) process using a Web document collection. This research …
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How College Campuses Are Using Social Media During Severe Weather Events
… on various parameters at each of the sites, document collection of social media and communications policies at each of these sites, and interviews with key people on each campus, including social media managers, university police, and various other student affairs personnel. Through the …
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… 200 hours of observations, 21 interviews, and document collection creating a case study of a single education VP, the Center for Educational Advancement (CEA). Using Foucauldian disciplinary theory to analyze CEA's perspective on and practice of educational investment, this study found that CEA …
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Cue the Paralinguistics: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Social Presence
… the virtual setting, utilizing a variety of data collection methods. In-depth interviews were conducted, followed by digital document collection and a focus group interview; transcripts of both interviews and the focus group were analyzed in order to establish the specific practices teachers use …
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Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition
… a narrative research design. Two methods of data collection included multiple one-on-one interviews and document collection. Four participants were selected from one community college in the New Orleans area, two who repeated and completed developmental reading upon their third attempt and two who …
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The Perceptions and Practices of Members of Ontario College Boards Regarding Board Self Evaluation
… and qualitative methods was employed. Document collection, a survey and interviews were the principal methods used to gather data. This study added to the knowledge provided by the 2005 Deloitte Study of Ontario College Boards by updating the data regarding the current rates of Ontario …
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Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi
… including semi-structured interviews and document collection, to examine how Faith-based Organization (FBO) and government agency leaders in Biloxi, Mississippi provide resources to residents, interact with each other, and engage with vulnerable communities in the wake of minor tropical …
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Understanding primary school teachers' professional development needs for fostering inclusion in Cyprus
… interviews, semi-structured interviews and document collection. Through the process of analysing and interpreting the data, the overall understanding gained was that teachers' professional development needs are related to three areas of need. These areas relate to the dominant value systems, …
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Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers’ Working Lives: A Labour Process Perspective
… This comprised a six-week shadowing phase, document collection and 26 semi-structured interviews with Teachers, Managers, HR and Trade Union Representatives. Findings reveal that the removal of a contextual value added measure from school performance metrics leads to an increase in teachers’ …
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An analysis of business intelligence for improved public service delivery
… by conducting semi-structured interviews and document collection with organisations that are implementing BI. A qualitative thematic analysis method was used to construct the major themes that emerged from the data. The research objectives were addressed by constructing three frameworks; to …
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