Using Wikipedia to make academic abstracts more readable

✍ Scribed by Chris Jordan; Carolyn Watters; Elaine Toms

• Book ID: 102513242
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 406 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450320

✦ Synopsis

Reading is a primary means for people to get information. To read and understand a document, however, often requires readers to have a certain level of background knowledge. For example, people reading academic papers published by ASIST will more than likely need to have a background in digital libraries, information retrieval, and human computer interaction in order to completely understand them. It is common though for people to have incomplete background knowledge. In those cases, readers may often encounter text passages that they do not understand or would like to have additional information on in order to better grasp the document. These situations represent a specific information need where users require explanatory information to help them understand the document that they are reading.