A Parallel Computing Approach to Creating Engineering Concept Spaces for Semantic Retrieval: The Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project (1996)
| Venue: | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
| Citations: | 37 - 12 self |
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@ARTICLE{Chen96aparallel,
author = {Hsinchun Chen and Bruce Schatz and Tobun Ng and Joanne Martinez and Amy Kirchhoff and Chienting Lin},
title = {A Parallel Computing Approach to Creating Engineering Concept Spaces for Semantic Retrieval: The Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
year = {1996},
volume = {18},
pages = {771--782}
}
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Abstract
: This research presents preliminary results generated from the semantic retrieval research component of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative (DLI) project. Using a variation of the automatic thesaurus generation techniques, to which we refer as the concept space approach, we aimed to create graphs of domain-specific concepts (terms) and their weighted co-occurrence relationships for all major engineering domains. Merging these concept spaces and providing traversal paths across different concept spaces could potentially help alleviate the vocabulary (difference) problem evident in large-scale information retrieval. We have experimented previously with such a technique for a smaller molecular biology domain (Worm Community System, with 10+ MBs of document collection) with encouraging results. In order to address the scalability issue related to large-scale information retrieval and analysis for the current Illinois DLI project, we recently conducted experiments using the concept sp...
