• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.69-78
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• 2001

Recently, the current trend for computer based learning is moving from CAI environment to WBI environment. Most web documents for WBI learning are collected by aid of search engine. Instructors use those documents as learning materials after they evaluate availability of retrieved web documents. But, this method has the following problems. First, we search repeatedly the web documents selected by instructor. Second, there is a need for another course of instruction design in order to suggest the web documents for learner. Third, it is very difficult to analyze for relevance between the web documents and test results. In this work, we suggest WAILS(Web Agent Instruction Learning System) that retrieves web documents for WBI learning and guides learning course for learners. WAILS collects web documents for WBI learning by aid of web agent. Then, instructors can evaluate them and suggest to learners by using instruction-learning generating machine. Instructors retrieve web documents and the instruction-learning design at the same time. This can facilitate WBI learning.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.27
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• pp.265-289
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• 1994

Databases publicly available for online searching permit both citation and subject searching, however, subject searching has dominated the online search environment. Despite the power of citation searching, it may be underutilized This study explored the relationship between the number of cited references used in a citation search and information retrieval effectiveness, a relatively unstudied phenomenon. Three articles in the library and information science literature were chosen to represent sample questions. Cited reference searches were conducted for each article and each of its references. All searches were conducted in Social Scisearch and Scisearch on DIALOG. Relevance judgments on the retrieved citations were obtained from the authors of the original articles. This research focused on analyzing, in terms of information retrieval effectiveness, the overlap among postings sets retrieved by various combinations of cited references. The findings from the three case studies clearly showed that the more cited references used for the citation search, the better the performance, in terms of retrieving more relevant documents, up to a point of diminishing retums. In addition, generally the overall level of overlap among relevant documents sets was found to be low. Therefore, if only some of the cited references among many candidates are used for a citation search, a significant proportion of relevant documents may be missed. The analysis of the characteristics of cited references provided the ways to predict which cited refereces would be useful to improve information retrieval. The findings of this comprehensive exploratory study are of interest for both theoretical and practical reasons. They contribute to the development of a theoretical model for the effective use of the citation search. This model might also be implemented in operational online systems. In addition, the findings potentially will help online searchers improve their search strategies using the citation search so that they can better achieve their information retrieval goals: the retrieval of items relevant to a given question and the suppression of nonrelevant items.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.263-280
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• 2011

This study aims to investigate current status of mobile search services of Korean search portals, and analyze mobile unified search contents of Naver and Google Korea. In particular, this study analyzed characteristics of mobile unified search such as number of retrieved documents, collection distribution, and yearly distribution. Also, documents were evaluated in terms of relevance, credibility, and currency. This study compared quality of Naver's unified Web best and unified Web, and Google's best Web documents and Web documents. The correlation between document's ranking and document's relevance was analyzed. The results of this study can be implemented to the portal's effective development of mobile search service.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.50-55
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• 2010

Duplicate documents in blog service system are one of causes that deteriorate both of the quality and the performance of blog searches. Unlike the WWW environment, the creation of documents is reported every time in blog service system, which makes it possible to identify the original document from its duplicate documents. Based on this observation, this paper proposes a novel method for detecting duplication documents in blog service system. This method determines whether a document is original or not at the time it is stored in the blog service system. As a result, it solves the problem of duplicate documents retrieved in the search result by keeping those documents from being stored in the index for the blog search engine. This paper also proposes three indexing methods that preserve an accuracy of previous work, Min-hashing. We show most effective indexing method via extensive experiments using real-life blog data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.3
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• pp.247-256
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• 2009

Typical pseudo-relevance feedback methods assume the top-retrieved documents are relevant and use these pseudo-relevant documents to expand terms. The initial retrieval set can, however, contain a great deal of noise. In this paper, we present a cluster-based resampling method to select better pseudo-relevant documents based on the relevance model. The main idea is to use document clusters to find dominant documents for the initial retrieval set, and to repeatedly feed the documents to emphasize the core topics of a query. Experimental results on large-scale web TREC collections show significant improvements over the relevance model. For justification of the resampling approach, we examine relevance density of feedback documents. The resampling approach shows higher relevance density than the baseline relevance model on all collections, resulting in better retrieval accuracy in pseudo-relevance feedback. This result indicates that the proposed method is effective for pseudo-relevance feedback.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.5 s.182
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• pp.30-36
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• 2006

The participants in collaborative environment want to get the right information or documents which are intended to find. In general search systems, documents which contain only the keywords are retrieved. For searching different word-expressions for the same meaning, we perform mapping before searching. Our mapping-based search approach has two parts, ontology-based mapping logic and ontology libraries. The ontology-based mapping consists of three steps such as character matching (CM), definition comparing (DC) and similarity checking (SC). First, the character matching is the mapping of two terminologies that have identical character strings. Second, the definition comparing is the method that compares two terminologies' ontological definitions. Third, the similarity checking pairs two terminologies which were not mapped by two prior steps through evaluating the similarity of the ontological definitions. For the ontology libraries, document ontology library (DOL), keyword ontology library (KOL), and mapping result library (MRL) are defined. With these three libraries and three mapping steps, an ontology-based search engine (OntSE) is built, and a use case scenario is discussed to show the applicability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.136-163
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• 1985

A user who retrieved relevant documents from the existing commercial databases may be not always satisfied with the results of the traditional bibliographic searches using the subject index terms. On the assumption that the user wants more relevant documents in such instances, this thesis presents an expanded search strategy by carrying out an experiment using bibliographic citations as another content indicator in addition to index terms.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.10
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• pp.2728-2739
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• 1999

This paper proposes an effective fusion algorithm for retrieval results from heterogeneous information sources in federated digital libraries. The algorithm determines the population of documents retrieved from involved information sources for a given query and evaluates the degree of relevance between the query and the population. The evaluated results are used as relevance distribution information for collection fusion. The main informations used for the fusion are relevance distribution among collections, the population size N, and ranking information of relevant documents in their origin. We also present th performance evaluation of the algorithm by developing the prototype of a meta-searcher.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.305-310
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• 2005

이 연구에서는 주제검색을 통해 검색된 문헌들의 인용정보를 이용한 질의확장 기법을 제안하였으며 이 제안된 기법의 성능을 일반적 질의확장 기법인 지역적 질의확장 및 전역적 질의확장과 비교 평가하였다. 연구 결과 인용기반 질의확장 기법이 전역적 및 지역적 질의확장 기법에 비해 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였으며, 특히 피인용 표제어를 이용한 질의확장 검색의 효용성을 실험을 통해 밝혀냈다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.295-312
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• 2012

This research aims to present the ego-centered topic citation analysis, which is a new application of White's ego-centered citation analysis, for analyzing multilayered knowledge structure of a subject domain. An experimental topic citation analysis was carried out on the folksonomy research documents retrieved from Web of Science. Ego-centered topic citation analyses on folksonomy research domain were conducted in three stages: ego-documents set analysis, topic citation identity analysis, and topic citation image analysis. The results showed that the ego-centered topic citation analysis suggested in this study was successfully performed to illustrate the inner and the outer knowledge structures of folksonomy research domain.