E-Librarian Service: User-Friendly Semantic Search in Digital Libraries

✍ Scribed by Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Series: X.media.publishing
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction to E-Librarian Services....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Semantic Web and Ontologies....Pages 15-42
Description Logics and Reasoning....Pages 43-60
Natural Language Processing....Pages 61-79
Information Retrieval....Pages 81-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Ontological Approach....Pages 103-115
Design of the Natural Language Processing Module....Pages 117-140
Designing the Multimedia Information Retrieval Module....Pages 141-154
Implementation....Pages 155-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Best practices....Pages 167-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
XML Schema Primitive Datatypes....Pages 183-184
Reasoning Algorithms....Pages 185-186
Brown Tag Set....Pages 187-189
Part-of-Speech Taggers and Parsers....Pages 191-192
Probabilistic IR Model....Pages 193-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-212

✦ Subjects

Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems and Communication Service; Language Translation and Linguistics; Computer Communication Networks

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