Linckels, Serge.

E-librarian service : search with semantic web technologies / by Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel. - Berlin ; London : Springer, 2011. - 250 p. : ill. - X.media.publishing . - X.media.publishing. .

Introducing a new approach in designing e-librarian services, this text combines recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces. This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.




Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9783642177439 (ebook)


Semantic Web.
Digital libraries.
Computers and IT.
Library & information sciences / Museology
IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries
Information retrieval
Graphical & digital media applications
Network hardware
Computer networking & communications
Natural language & machine translation
User interface design & usability
Internet guides & online services
System administration
Speech recognition
Computer hardware
Storage media & peripherals
Audio processing