The Three Faces of Synthesis: Bringing Together Quantitative Findings in the Field of Transport and Environmental Policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
K J Button
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Fruitful Research ◽  
Work Done

Good policymaking is based on sound information. Seldom, however, does any research work generate findings that are genuinely new. Much research draws upon and extends bodies of existing knowledge to gain better insights or to refine the accuracy of key parameters. Modern information-retrieval systems allow increasingly easy access to the findings of previous work. One of the bigger challenges today is to keep abreast of what is actually going on, and to extract insights from the existing body of knowledge where gaps still exist and the most fruitful research may be conducted. There are three broad approaches towards our existing body of knowledge, and the aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of these alternatives and to pinpoint the types of circumstance where one may prove more helpful than the others. It places particular attention on work done which relates to the effects that transport has on the environment.

Search Variability and Interlibrary Services

Infolib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Irina Krasilnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Electronic Catalogs ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Foreign Materials ◽  
Search For Information

The urgency of the problem is associated with an increase in the number of electronic resources in many information and library institutions, the need to search for information from any sources, including external ones, the provision of documents from a group of funds (corporations), the presence of electronic catalogs and search systems. Finding information from catalogs and other search engines has always preceded the execution of orders in the interlibrary service. Borrowing and using documents from different collections (provision of interlibrary services) is possible only if there is up-to-date metadata of modern information retrieval systems (ISS). The purpose of the article is to summarize the results of studying several types of search engines. At the same time, attention was drawn to new scientific publications on the topic under study. An analysis of domestic and foreign materials on the options for searching for information is presented, which is very necessary for users, including those who are remote in the provision of interlibrary services.

scholarly journals An Art of Review on Conceptual based Information Retrieval

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (SI02) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
P. Mahalakshmi ◽  
N. Sabiyath Fathima
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conceptual Information ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
User Query ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems

Basically keywords are used to index and retrieve the documents for the user query in a conventional information retrieval systems. When more than one keywords are used for defining the single concept in the documents and in the queries, inaccurate and incomplete results were produced by keyword based retrieval systems. Additionally, manual interventions are required for determining the relationship between the related keywords in terms of semantics to produce the accurate results which have paved the way for semantic search. Various research work has been carried out on concept based information retrieval to tackle the difficulties that are caused by the conventional keyword search and the semantic search systems. This paper aims at elucidating various representation of text that is responsible for retrieving relevant search results, approaches along with the evaluation that are carried out in conceptual information retrieval, the challenges faced by the existing research to expatiate requirements of future research. In addition, the conceptual information that are extracted from the different sources for utilizing the semantic representation by the existing systems have been discussed.

scholarly journals A Novel Information retrieval system for distributed cloud using Hybrid Deep Fuzzy Hashing Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. V. Suma
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Hashing Algorithm ◽  
Distributed Cloud

The recent technology development fascinates the people towards information and its services. Managing the personal and pubic data is a perennial research topic among researchers. In particular retrieval of information gains more attention as it is important similar to data storing. Clustering based, similarity based, graph based information retrieval systems are evolved to reduce the issues in conventional information retrieval systems. Learning based information retrieval is the present trend and in particular deep neural network is widely adopted due to its retrieval performance. However, the similarity between the information has uncertainties due to its measuring procedures. Considering these issues also to improve the retrieval performance, a hybrid deep fuzzy hashing algorithm is introduced in this research work. Hashing efficiently retrieves the information based on mapping the similar information as correlated binary codes and this underlying information is trained using deep neural network and fuzzy logic to retrieve the necessary information from distributed cloud. Experimental results prove that the proposed model attains better retrieval accuracy and accuracy compared to conventional models such as support vector machine and deep neural network.

An Overview of Video Information Retrieval Techniques

2011 ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Sagarmay Deb ◽  
Yanchun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Multimedia Databases ◽  
Video Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Indexing And Retrieval ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Efficient Video

Video information retrieval is currently a very important topic of research in the area of multimedia databases. Plenty of research work has been undertaken in the past decade to design efficient video information retrieval techniques from the video or multimedia databases. Although a large number of indexing and retrieval techniques have been developed, there are still no universally accepted feature extraction, indexing, and retrieval techniques available. In this chapter, we present an up-to-date overview of various video information retrieval systems. Since the volume of literature available in the field is enormous, only selected works are mentioned.

Relevance Predictability in Information Retrieval Systems

1967 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kent ◽  
J. Belzer ◽  
M. Kuhfeerst ◽  
E. D. Dym ◽  
D. L. Shirey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
High Predictability ◽  
Intermediate Response ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Level Of Processing

An experiment is described which attempts to derive quantitative indicators regarding the potential relevance predictability of the intermediate stimuli used to represent documents in information retrieval systems. In effect, since the decision to peruse an entire document is often predicated upon the examination of one »level of processing« of the document (e.g., the citation and/or abstract), it became interesting to analyze the properties of what constitutes »relevance«. However, prior to such an analysis, an even more elementary step had to be made, namely, to determine what portions of a document should be examined.An evaluation of the ability of intermediate response products (IRPs), functioning as cues to the information content of full documents, to predict the relevance determination that would be subsequently made on these documents by motivated users of information retrieval systems, was made under controlled experimental conditions. The hypothesis that there might be other intermediate response products (selected extracts from the document, i.e., first paragraph, last paragraph, and the combination of first and last paragraph), that would be as representative of the full document as the traditional IRPs (citation and abstract) was tested systematically. The results showed that:1. there is no significant difference among the several IRP treatment groups on the number of cue evaluations of relevancy which match the subsequent user relevancy decision on the document;2. first and last paragraph combinations have consistently predicted relevancy to a higher degree than the other IRPs;3. abstracts were undistinguished as predictors; and4. the apparent high predictability rating for citations was not substantive.Some of these results are quite different than would be expected from previous work with unmotivated subjects.

Performance of eight information retrieval systems in the Spanish web

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
Por Carlos Benito Amat ◽  
Por Carlos Benito Amat
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems

A Dialectical Approach to Search Engine Evaluation

Libri ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Mahdi Zeynali-Tazehkandi ◽  
Mohsen Nowkarizi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Oriented Approach

AbstractEvaluation of information retrieval systems is a fundamental topic in Library and Information Science. The aim of this paper is to connect the system-oriented and the user-oriented approaches to relevant philosophical schools. By reviewing the related literature, it was found that the evaluation of information retrieval systems is successful if it benefits from both system-oriented and user-oriented approaches (composite). The system-oriented approach is rooted in Parmenides’ philosophy of stability (immovable) which Plato accepts and attributes to the world of forms; the user-oriented approach is rooted in Heraclitus’ flux philosophy (motion) which Plato defers and attributes to the tangible world. Thus, using Plato’s theory is a comprehensive approach for recognizing the concept of relevance. The theoretical and philosophical foundations determine the type of research methods and techniques. Therefore, Plato’s dialectical method is an appropriate composite method for evaluating information retrieval systems.

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