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The Newer, the Worse: the Status of Farsi Word Processing Softwares in Iran
No full textIn this paper, the problems of Farsi word processing softwares that are based on Word for Windows are enumerated. Being a non-roman script written from right to left and taken as Arabic, are two factors affecting the malfunctioning of Word for Windows. The problems such as: different keyboard layouts in different versions of Word; many problems encountered in dealing with digits; the problems concerning capital letters that sometimes do not attach when they must; and the considering Farsi letters as misspelled by spell checker are but some problems of the kind. Some suggestions are presented at the end
INTRODUCTION
No full textThis workshop will address the changing role of information and communication providers and users in the e-publishing industry, and their increasingly interdependent relationships. For this purpose, it aims at discussing ways to map both the key drivers of change and the challenges affecting the e-publishing sector through an interdisciplinary strategic context that encompasses economic, juridical, technological and social issues.The international scene reveals the importance of focusing on revenue or return on investment and on developing more appropriate business models, but the innovation approach is still uncertain, therefore it becomes indispensable to identify actors and the changes affecting the labour force, as well as to understand user-behaviour and response to new online products and services; likewise, it is equally important to pay attention to the user as producer of content, for a contextual e-publishing landscape. The session will share knowledge from direct professional experience and collaborative work carried out by ECDC/Infonomics with other EU R&D organisations investigating the major trends in the e-publishing sector. The Infonomics applied cross-disciplinary research approach bridges expertise between communications, information technology, entrepreneurship, economics, sociology, social sciences, e-publishing, and policy-making. Therefore, the workshop is of interest to professionals of the e-publishing industry, e-publishing researchers, knowledge-based market analysts, members of regulatory bodies for digital content production, content creators (authors, researchers, journalists), and end-users of content
INTRODUCTION
No full textThis workshop will cover both digitisation of mathematical publications and digitally born electronic publications in mathematics. With the rapidly growing activities in electronic publishing, ideas came up to install global repositories which deal with three main streams in this enterprise: storing the electronic material currently available, pursuing projects to solve the archiving problem for this material with the ambition to preserve the content in readable form for future generations, and to capture the printed literature in digital versions providing good access and search facilities for the readers. Long-term availability of published research articles in mathematics and easy access to them is a strong need for researchers working with mathematics. Hence in this domain some pioneering projects have been established addressing the above mentioned problems.Amongst them on European level and world wide we should mention the Digital Library in Mathematics (DLM). For example, in the archiving area as a special project for mathematics, the Electronic Mathematics Archives Network Initiative (EMANI) had been designed. The Electronic Research Archive in Mathematics (ERAM) is a DFG-funded German project dealing with capturing the content of a classical bibliographic service in mathematics in a database, and combining this with the retro-digitisation of selected mathematical publications. This is extended now by further projects which shall try to retro-digitise the national mathematical heritage in several countries world-wide. In particular ideas to cover the Russian publications in a digital repository called RusDLM have been implemented in a project funded by DFG and RFBR. As further digitisation projects the French activity NUMDAM, pursued by Cellule MathDoc in Grenoble, and the European Cooperation in DIEPER have to be mentioned. The workshop is of interest not only to mathematicians, but also to specialists from various scientific domains who face the question on how to organise their electronic publishing initiatives
OmniPaper Smart Information Retrieval Prototype
No full textThe OmniPaper project has implemented several information retrieval prototypes in the area of electronic news publishing. One prototype uses SOAP as communication protocol between the central system and a number of distributed news archives. The second prototype uses an RDF metadata database, enabling direct metadata queries to the central system. Finally the Topic Map prototype uses query expansion and semantic linking for smart metadata search. The Topic Map prototype enhances the search experience by implementing a knowledge layer that combines the semantic content of a lexical database, consisting of concepts and keywords, with a metadata-set of newspaper articles. After developing and testing three smaller prototypes, the OmniPaper consortium has combined these prototypes in one. In this final prototype a kind of ?enhanced full-text search? engine is implemented. This means that the prototype is an interface on top of existing search engines. When a user submits a query, this query is forwarded to several distributed news archives to retrieve relevant news articles. Next to this, the system: 1) translates queries to enable multilingual search, 2) provides a query refinement mechanism, both in graphic and text-based form, allowing users to adapt their query and 3) provides uniform result ranking algorithm across the different news archives. In this prototype querying and navigation are considered as alternative methods to find relevant information. Both interact with each other and together they produce a combined user experience that can be expressed as find what you were looking for and then browse away from it. In fact, the prototype considers both querying and navigation as a kind of search action and tries to integrate both. In concrete, keywords in a query are looked up in a dictionary and shown to the user. In the background, the keywords are translated and expanded to related terms. These expanded queries are sent to the underlying full-text search engine(s) in all requested languages. In the graphical tool (?web of concepts?) users can redefine the meaning of their query words, resulting in an updated query and result set. Both disambiguation (choosing one meaning of a word out of many) and refinement (browsing to related words) are possible. Figure 1 shows the web of concepts for the query ?poll Indonesia?. The word ?Indonesia? is recognized in only one concept, ?Dutch East Indies?, whereas the word ?poll? has many different meanings. If you select the meaning ?canvass? for example, this word is replacing the word ?poll? in the original query. After selection the concept ?canvass? can again be expanded to related concepts, be it more general or more specific in meaning. In the textual tool only refinement is possible. The user gets a list of words that are related to the words appearing in the query, grouped into more similar, more specific and more general terms. Then the user can change his/her query using these proposed words
Electronic Publishing in the Online Journal "Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS)
No full textIn this work we present the electronic publishing process of the Online Journal ?Forum: Qualitative Social Research? (FQS). We introduce technologies and tools used to optimize the publishing process, to provide sustainability of FQS publications and to extend the communicative possibilities, but also to net the FQS with other social research internet resources and to make it accessible to other interdisciplinary groups
TO A NEW BALANCE OF FORCES: HOW CAN LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCHERS WORK TOGETHER TO REGAIN CONTROL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION?
No full textTwo essential movements can be observed in the innovation of scholarly communication i.e. Open Access on one side and the Open Archives Initiative on the other. The first being a more individual choice of the researcher, the latter being either a more institutional or subject-oriented way of providing access to scientific information. Although these proposals to replace the old publication model are mainly oriented towards the academics, the results of their choices will have important implications on libraries and institutional budgets. This paper makes a plea for both parties to work together towards a profitable solution for each of them, not so much as an action out of enmity against commercial publishers, but rather as a way to cope with the growing danger of monopolism in the scientific publication market. This matter brooks no delay at all, especially if the researchers and with them the whole academic scene, plan to regain control on the dissimination of scientific information
IXQuery: Interactive and Information Retrieval Xquery
No full textXQuery is the standard language for querying XML documents using structural and content restrictions. In this paper, we propose to extend XQuery with selection operations that allow for the selection of the interesting subset of elements from each intermediate result of a query. To make this possible, intermediate results must be available during the construction of the query. This helps the user in building a query to retrieve the desired result. XQuery is being extended with a Full-Text language that allows to perform operations on text treating it as a sequence of words, units of punctuation, and spaces. This language includes a score clause that associates relevance measures to the results. The computation of these measures can be done using the method we also describe in this paper
INTRODUCTION
No full textThe Digital Library of ELPUB conference papers is hosted at http://elpub.scix.net. In this paper, in addition to a demonstration of implemented features, background information and matters of handling will be elaborated. In the framework of this workshop similar libraries with post-conference publishing entities will be described. Furthermore, parallel systems that are aiming at submission and review procedures as pre-conference publishing activities, and are based on the same database environment, will be presented
From Scientific Communication to Public Knowledge: the Scientific Article Web Published as a Knowledge Base
No full textLinking Electronic published scientific articles to Web ontologies is a cognitive tool of which its impacts and possibilities are far from being evaluated. The objective of this research is to investigate the potential of Web published scientific articles, conceived not only as texts, but also as a machine readable knowledge base, explicitly and formally related to Web-based public ontologies, that represent the assented knowledge of a specific domain. A prospective survey is developed to identify similar proposals and innovative experiences in electronically publishing scientific articles, authoring tools and citation analysis. Scientific methodology is also reviewed looking for structural characteristics of the scientific method presented in the written text of scientific articles. Experiences in developing Markup Language for some specific areas of knowledge, such as Chemical Markup Language, Mathematics Markup Language and Biology Markup Language, are also reviewed. An electronic publishing process is outlined which would permit the electronic publishing of not only scientific articles as full-texts, but would also enables an author to formalize the ?deep structure? of a scientific article, containing assumptions, hypotheses, methodology, citations, datasets used, conclusions and contributions. All these elements are published as a knowledge base, using XML language, thus outlining a Sm-ML, a Scientific methodology Markup Language. Concepts expressed in the different parts of a Scientific article are to be linked to public Web ontologies, thus enabling the establishment of a formal relationship between the Scientific article specific knowledge base to ontologies like the UMLS ? the Unified Medical Language System (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheet/umls.html). The citations of an article are also be linked to the cited Web published scientific articles as qualified citations, in which the reasons to cite and the relationship between this specific scientific article and its citations are made explicit. The proposed model can enhances the scientific communication process, permitting semantic retrieval, critical inquiring, semantic citation, comparison, coherence verification and validating of a scientific article against public Web ontologies, which express the assented knowledge of a scientific area. The model was also conceived as the base for developing enhanced authoring and retrieval tools
Documents Categorization in Multilingual Environment
No full textThis paper deals with various methods for multilingual document categorization and informs about the results of experiments in which EuroWordNet (EWN) plays the central role and serves as a fundamental problem solving tool. We describe both the algorithmic principles and the methodologies used in our classification system and consequently prove their functionality by experimental results. The aim of experiments was to verify the impact of multilingual collection on the quality of categorization and also find how thesaurus can be used to improve the classification and how the use of multilingual thesaurus can generalize monolingual version of categorization