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© Prof David J Harper 2004
Looking beyond the delivery of e-Theses to using them: Intelligent document browsing using ProfileSkim
David J Harper
The Robert Gordon UniversitySmart Web Technologies Centre
School of ComputingAberdeen, Scotland.
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Lifecycle of an e-Thesis
Do research Write up research Production (of e-thesis) Publish Retrieval (search, directory lookup, …) Delivery Use
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What kinds of Use?
Reading to: Locate and extract information Reference information Examine the thesis
Using the thesis as a “pivot” in the information space: Following references from thesis Finding references to the thesis Tracking work of the author Searching based on extracts/snippets from text
Exploring social/work context of the thesis Project group(s) Research group Department
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ProfileSkim
Developed to support retrieval within long documents
Within document retrieval tool: supports reading to extract and reading to reference
Main concept: relevance profiling based on language modelling
Replacement for the ubiquitous (and ineffective) Find-command
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Overview of ProfileSkim Tool
Page(s) being visited
HighlightQuery Words
Query input
StandardAcrobat
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Relevance Profile Meter (1)
Retrieval Status Value
Word position
Document
Relevance Profile Meter
Click and visit ...
Page
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Closing Remarks
Think beyond electronic e-theses delivery to use
ProfileSkim is an effective tool for within document retrieval, and this has been confirmed by end user experiments
ProfileSkim is a standalone tool, which is currently being developed as plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Professional
Range of possible reading activities suggests a need for a specialised e-thesis reading tool
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Further Information on ProfileSkim
Handout Acrobat plug-in launch in November 2004 Opportunities for:
User Trialling Purchase Resellers Affiliates
Registration of Interest (see Speaker) Link to ProfileSkim e-shop from
http://www.smartweb-products.co.uk (soon)
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SmartWeb - A few words from my sponsor
Centre of excellence on intelligent computing technologies and their application to web-based systems and services
Basic and applicable research targeted at: e-Government, e-Learning, e-Health and e-Business
Located at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Seeking collaborators, commercialisation partners, exchanges, short- and longer term visitors, PhD students
www.smartweb.rgu.ac.uk
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Relevance Profiling Process
P(query | window)
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max -> page score
Sliding window
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