浅谈学习型社会公共图书馆教育职能之拓展

学习型社会是十六大确立的全面建设小康社会的重要内容,在我国,随着社会的不断发展和进步,学习已成为国人之必需。承担着社会教育职能的图书馆在学习型社会中具有不可替代的教育功效。公共图书馆应该抓住这一契机,充分发挥和完善其教育职能。     

Two-stage statistical language models for text database selection

As the number and diversity of distributed Web databases on the Internet exponentially increase, it is difficult for user to know which databases are appropriate to search. Given database language models that describe the content of each database, database selection services can provide assistance in locating databases relevant to the information needs of users. In this paper, we propose a database selection approach based on statistical language modeling. The basic idea behind the approach is that, for databases that are categorized into a topic hierarchy, individual language models are estimated at different search stages, and then the databases are ranked by the similarity to the query according to the estimated language model. Two-stage smoothed language models are presented to circumvent inaccuracy due to word sparseness. Experimental results demonstrate that such a language modeling approach is competitive with current state-of-the-art database selection approaches.     

Hierarchical clustering of a Finnish newspaper article collection with graded relevance assessments

Search facilitated with agglomerative hierarchical clustering methods was studied in a collection of Finnish newspaper articles (N = 53,893). To allow quick experiments, clustering was applied to a sample (N = 5,000) that was reduced with principal components analysis. The dendrograms were heuristically cut to find an optimal partition, whose clusters were compared with each of the 30 queries to retrieve the best-matching cluster. The four-level relevance assessment was collapsed into a binary one by (A) considering all the relevant and (B) only the highly relevant documents relevant, respectively. Single linkage (SL) was the worst method. It created many tiny clusters, and, consequently, searches enabled with it had high precision and low recall. The complete linkage (CL), average linkage (AL), and Ward's methods (WM) returned reasonably-sized clusters typically of 18–32 documents. Their recall (A: 27–52%, B: 50–82%) and precision (A: 83–90%, B: 18–21%) was higher than and comparable to those of the SL clusters, respectively. The AL and WM clustering had 1–8% better effectiveness than nearest neighbor searching (NN), and SL and CL were 1–9% less efficient that NN. However, the differences were statistically insignificant. When evaluated with the liberal assessment A, the results suggest that the AL and WM clustering offer better retrieval ability than NN. Assessment B renders the AL and WM clustering better than NN, when recall is considered more important than precision. The results imply that collections in the highly inflectional and agglutinative languages, such as Finnish, may be clustered as the collections in English, provided that documents are appropriately preprocessed.     

论高校图书馆的愉悦教育功能

文章从图书馆的知识信息服务、良好学习环境、现代服务手段、学术活动的开展等四个方面,论述了高校图书馆的愉悦教育功能.     

从信息构建看未来的知识管理

本文从信息构建出发 ,进而引申到知识管理与知识推理 ,最终提出了知识基础工程。在设计并实现自然语言的语法开发平台时 ,产生了构建知识库的设想。利用语法开发平台 ,就可以对自然语言的语法进行开发 ,加上一个好的算法 ,就可以对大规模文本进行自动分析。对分析过的句子进行内容提取 ,并用面向对象方法和逻辑形式进行格式化 ,得到以面向对象为特征的常识知识库和以逻辑命题为特征的专家知识库 ,这应该是知识发现、知识管理的最高层次 ,也是知识工程的核心     

高校图书馆的文献采访工作必须掌握动态信息

探讨了高校图书馆文献采访工作应如何掌握动态信息，提高购书质量，加强馆藏建设的原则以及网络环境下文献资源建设的新模式。     

学术批判是学科发展的推进器

文章指出，学术研究的本质就是批判，学术批判的目的在于追求真理，因此，在开展学术批判的时候一定要解决好以下问题：批判理论与理论批判；批判实践与实践批判；理论与实践相结合等问题。     

试论多媒体信息检索的发展

文章通过对文本信息检索语言发展的分析，得出检索语言发展的一般规律，由此对多媒体信息检索语言的发展做出回顾和总结，同时对于多媒体信息检索语言的前景进行了展望。     

关于自然语言检索问题

自然语言检索当前仅在关键词检索的层次上已经实现，重点分析了全文检索所适应和不适应的检索要求及其评价，用分析说明了当前关于自然语言检索的主流观点的不切实际，指出自然语言检索的发展方向是与情报检索语言结合和融合。     

从五十年馆藏西文文献看国外藏学研究及藏学文献的发展

通过对馆藏西文藏学文献的分析,以点带面,概括出国外对藏学研究及国外出版的藏学文献的特色、意义和今后的发展方向,以及国内在收藏和利用国外有关文献时应注意的问题,从而为藏学研究工作者提供更好的文献资源服务。