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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"topic maps"”.
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Towards structured representation of academic search results
… search results with concise and informative topic maps. The method consists of two steps: i) extracting interrelated topics from the publication titles and abstracts, and ii) summarizing the resulting topic graph. In the first step we map the returned publications to articles and categories …
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Mapping the relationship between knowledge management and information architecture
… heterogeneous environments such as the Internet. Topic maps are considered as a possible solution to the concerns of metadata classification and subject based classification. Due to the extent and nature of the information recorded in a topic map, it becomes an information resource in itself. …
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Automated selection of topographic base information for thematic maps
Modern GIS are capable of producing well designed maps but offer little assistance to users with little cartographc knowledge. Maps which are produced by such users may have a lot of cartographic errors and be of poor design. Thus, it is very necessary to build cartographic knowledge into GIS to …
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Information Systems Scholarship: An Examination of the Past, Present, and Future of the Information Systems Academic Discipline
This dissertation investigates the topic of scholarship in the Information Systems (IS) discipline through a series of three papers. The papers, presented in Chapters 2, 3, and 4, each delve into a specific chronological period of IS scholarship which are delineated into the past, present, and …
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Improving Web Search for Difficult Queries
… I propose to construct a novel multi-resolution topic map to enable effective browsing beyond hyperlinks. In summary, my dissertation is to study how to improve search engines for difficult queries along all these four directions by exploiting both global massive search logs and immediate user …
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An integrated use of tools to acquire knowledge elements and support decisions in innovations processes
… the context around us. Different types of maps, that are proposed in the literature, can be created and modified by conscious intent or without conscious intent, showing cognitive structures, reflecting values, emotions, behaviours. The proposed maps were analyzed and classified, in order …