INLS 235

Day 6

2/12/2003

 

Projects and Review updates

 

1. One minute papers

Points

Non-linguistic retrieval in video, perceptual indexing

Complexity of back end services in a DL

OV as a sharium

 

Questions

What are the fundamental differences between text and multimedia objects?

More on DL tools

Rights management in open source?

Voice input for queries? (how to handle accents, inflections, etc.)

How to move/zoom across levels of granularity?

How to pose mm queries?

What is Dub,in core? http://dublincore.org/

Tradeoff between multiple, layered or alternative representations and access time and/or cog load?

Context for ISEE tool?

QBE?

Storage issues for video? (how much?) [also bandwidth]

More video segmentation and indexing techniques?

Issues with the peer to peer tool?

 

2. Information Retrieval and DLs (PP slides)

 

3. Interactive Interfaces to support retrieval:  The Library of Congress case (1995-97):  http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ndl/

            dynamic query prelude to relation browser

            previews and overviews

            results alternatives

            treasures to the surface’ 

            animated gifs, shockwave

 

4. Readings for next week

 

1. Lankes, D. (1998). The virtual reference desk: Building human expertise into information systems.  ASIS Annual Conference, p. 81-90.

See also:  http://www.vrd.org/Workshop/WhitePaper.PDF

 

Optional: Kan, M. & Klavans, J. (2002). Using librarian techniques in automatic text summarization for information retrieval.  Proceedings of JCDL 2002. p. 36-45.  (ACM DL)

 

5. One-minute paper

      What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?