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Introduction to the Special Topic Issue, In This Issue
Hsinchun Chen
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 51, No. 4 (2000) pp. 311–12
Discusses four major trends that have been encouraging the transition to a global digital library: (1) economics of the Internet, including inflation, multimedia, collaboration, timeliness, and scholarly communication; (2) improved service; (3) new...
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Introduction to the Special Topic Issue: Part 1
Hsinchun Chen
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 51, No. 3 (2000) pp. 213–15
Discusses changes in the location and provision of information services that have resulted from online technologies, particularly the World Wide Web. Highlights include knowledge management in digital libraries; the importance of research on...
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Cognitive Process as a Basis for Intelligent Retrieval Systems Design
Hsinchun Chen; Vasant Dhar
Information Processing & Management Vol. 27, No. 5 (1991) pp. 405–32
Two studies of the cognitive processes involved in online document-based information retrieval were conducted. These studies led to the development of five computational models of online document retrieval which were incorporated into the design of...
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Web Mining: Machine Learning for Web Applications
Hsinchun Chen; Michael Chau
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) Vol. 38 (2004) pp. 289–329
Presents an overview of machine learning research and reviews methods used for evaluating machine learning systems. Ways that machine-learning algorithms were used in traditional information retrieval systems in the "pre-Web" era are described, and...
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Comparing Noun Phrasing Techniques for Use with Medical Digital Library Tools
Kristin M. Tolle; Hsinchun Chen
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 51, No. 4 (2000) pp. 352–70
Describes a study that investigated the use of a natural language processing technique called noun phrasing to determine whether it is a viable technique for medical information retrieval. Evaluates four noun phrase generation tools for their...
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Information Navigation on the Web by Clustering and Summarizing Query Results
Dmitri G. Roussinov; Hsinchun Chen
Information Processing & Management Vol. 37, No. 6 (2001) pp. 789–816
Reports an approach to interactive information seeking that is grounded in the idea of summarizing query results through automated document clustering. The authors' prototype acted as an intermediate layer between the user and a commercial Internet...
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A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images
Marshall C. Ramsey; Hsinchun Chen; Bin Zhu; Bruce R. Schatz
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 50, No. 9 (1999) pp. 826–34
Discusses problems in creating indices and thesauri for digital libraries of geo-spatial multimedia content and proposes a scalable method to automatically generate visual thesauri of large collections of geo-spatial media using fuzzy, unsupervised...
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Moving Digital Libraries into the Student Learning Space: The GetSmart Experience
Byron B. Marshall; Hsinchun Chen; Rao Shen; Edward A. Fox
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006)
The GetSmart system was built to support theoretically sound learning processes in a digital library environment by integrating course management, digital library, and concept mapping components to support a constructivist, six-step, information...
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A Smart Itsy Bitsy Spider for the Web
Hsinchun Chen; Yi-Ming Chung; Marshall Ramsey; Christopher C. Yang
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 49, No. 7 (1998) pp. 604–18
This study tested two Web personal spiders (i.e., agents that take users' requests and perform real-time customized searches) based on best first-search and genetic-algorithm techniques. Both results were comparable and complementary, although the...
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A Graphical, Self-Organizing Approach to Classifying Electronic Meeting Output
Richard E. Orwig; Hsinchun Chen; Jay F. Nunamaker
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 48, No. 2 (1997) pp. 157–70
Describes research using an artificial intelligence approach in the application of a Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to the problem of classification of electronic brainstorming output and an evaluation of the results. The graphical representation ...
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Using Open Web APIs in Teaching Web Mining
Hsinchun Chen; Xin Li; M Chau; Yi-Jen Ho; Chunju Tseng
IEEE Transactions on Education Vol. 52, No. 4 (November 2009) pp. 482–490
With the advent of the World Wide Web, many business applications that utilize data mining and text mining techniques to extract useful business information on the Web have evolved from Web searching to Web mining. It is important for students to...