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A pair of shoes in the thesaurus; some reflexions on human and computer indexing
1. Eric Sieverts Media, information & communication Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences / Section Innovation & Development University Library Utrecht A pair of shoes in the thesaurus reflexions on human and computer indexing Society of Indexers Conference 2010 The challenging future of indexing 30 September 2010, Middelburg
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5. search, search, search, search, search, ...... searcher / query documents match the basic search-and-find paradigm Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010
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8. Want to know something about " hallenkerken " (Dutch for "hall church") thru Google Books? Google's first hit is a book about building thesauri, containing the word in a single example of broader and narrower terms
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10. match classical situation with controlled human indexing searcher must enter the "term(s)" that have been used to characterize the subject indexer must assign “correct” terms to characterize the document in principle perfect match is possible Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010 search, search, search, ......
11. match not user-friendly: searcher has to invent the correct terms expensive: indexers must analyze the document in order to assign the correct terms however Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010 search, search, search, ...... classical situation with controlled human indexing
12. search in the world of searcher just types some words (or often only one single word) search system contains (all) the words from the documents themselves often you don't find all you need - still satisfied ? match Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010 search, search, search, ......
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14. language technology at searcher side original simple query expanded & disambiguated statistics generate additional terms to refine queries search system contains just the words from the documents themselves improved queries will result in better answers ? match Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010 search, search, search, ......
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17. language technology at the document search with "correct" or “important” terms language technology enriches document with "correct" term (from thesaurus) or derives characteristic terms from the text in principle perfect match is possible match Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010 search, search, search, ......
36. SKOS-representation of thesaurus term & relations can be described in RDF Term : Economic cooperation Used For : Economic co-operation Broader terms : Economic policy Narrower terms : Economic integration, European economic cooperation, European industrial cooperation, Industrial cooperation Related terms : Interdependence Scope Note : Includes cooperative measures in banking, trade, industry etc., between and among countries. Eric Sieverts | e.g.sieverts@uu.nl | e.g.sieverts@hva.nl | http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric | Middelburg 30-9-2010
40. viaf: virtual international authority file dbpedia: data from Wikipedia last.fm: artists geonames: 6.2 M toponyms BBC: wildlife finder LCSH Reuters: openCalais IMDB
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43. verdi puccini lucca italy italia italië italien tosca madame -butterfly madama -butterfly roma rome occurrences situated in influenced composed location for place of birth simple example of opera topic-map adopted from Pepper association types topic types composer opera city country