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Semantic Structuring and Visual Querying of Document Abstracts in Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 1998)

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Digital libraries offer a vast source of very different information. To enable users to fruitfully browse through a collection of documents without necessarily having to state a complex query, advanced retrieval techniques have to be developed. Those methods have to be able to structure information in a semantic manner. This work presents some first steps in semantically organizing thematically pre-selected documents of a digital library. The semantic structure of the document collection will be expressively visualized by the proposed system. We illustrate our ideas using a database of medical abstracts from the field of oncology as a walking example.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstraße 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Andreas Becks & Stefan Sklorz

  2. LuFG Theoretische Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstraße 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Christopher Tresp

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Becks, A., Sklorz, S., Tresp, C. (1998). Semantic Structuring and Visual Querying of Document Abstracts in Digital Libraries. In: Nikolaou, C., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1513. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49653-X_27

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