Arts sponsorship and the state of the city

This paper explores the correlation between metropolitan social and economic conditions and corporate arts support in the United States. It is hypothesized that the transition from a manufacturing sector economy to an advanced service sector economy is an important local factor for the increase in corporate arts support.By panel analysis, in eleven metropolitan areas between 1977 and 1991 changes in corporate arts support have been correlated with changes in social and economic conditions, i.e., service sector and manufacturing sector employment, service sector and manufacturing sector income, population's educational attainment, and the degree of dominance by the leading local arts supporting industry.Corporate arts support is higher in metropolitan areas where the population is better educated (=+0.60), the local service sector generates more income (=+0.37) and the local manufacturing sector generates less income (=–0.22).Corporations from the manufacturing sector are mostly indifferent towards arts support. In contrast, corporations from the service sector are supportive of the local arts but they also respond swiftly to a loss in their earnings by discontinuing their arts support.     

Politico-economic interactions of German public performing arts institutions

Our paper analyzes the conduct of German public performing arts institutions in terms of non-market decision making or public choice. Apart from consumers of performing arts managers of performing arts institutions and public donors are main agents. A manager of a performing arts institution will not assume that the number of visitors is independent of his institution's programme or the ticket prices. By the same reasoning he will regard the amount of public subsidies not as exogenous, but dependent on his own policy. If future grants depend on present and past success (however defined), this will feed back into managerial decisions, along with expectations about demand. Data for the Federal Republic of Germany serve to empirically support the theoretical argument.     

基于ontology的语义检索模型架构

目前的web信息检索中，存在着检索效率低下的问题，很难满足普通用户基于自然语言的检索要求，也不具备语义推理能力，无法实现智能化的检索。而源于知识工程和人工智能领域的本体理论和技术，能够很好地处理自然语言理解问题和具有基于语义的推理机制，因此成为改进传统信息检索方式的良好工具。本文就运用本体理论，在对目前的各种研究进行了调查以后，区别了几个关键的容易混淆的概念，然后提出了一个基于ontology的、web环境下的语义检索系统的结构模型。     

论网络环境下情报检索语言的发展趋势

本文论述了网络环境下采用自然语言是必然趋势,然而自然语言并不会成为网络环境下的唯一检索语言,自然语言和人工语言相结合才是发展的方向.参考文献8.     

情报检索语言研究的新领域

情报检索语言的发展面临现代化、理论方法综合化和集成化的新条件,研究新的语言模型,提高检索语言的表达、描述等功能是当前的重要研究课题,同时要具体研究数据库检索语言、网络检索语言、本体论和语义网检索语言。在所有这些领域里,检索语言的机器理解功能日益重要;为适应机器处理的环境,对它的逻辑推理能力的要求越来越高,知识建模功能与系统表达能力受到越来越多的重视。     

西文手稿资料的编目实践与探索

论文以ISBD、AACR2相关规则为依据，结合对西文手稿资料范围、类型及特点分析，探讨西文手稿资料的著录规则与西文普通图书著录规则的差异，并对采用MARC21进行西文手稿资料编目方法及注意事项进行细致的分析与探讨。     

国内高校图书馆管理集成系统的选择

本文在对我国高等学校图书馆管理集成系统使用情况分析的基础上，简要介绍了几种拥有用户较多的文献信息管理系统，并据此提出高校图书馆在选择文献信息管理系统时应注重的标准、原则，指出高校图书馆管理集成系统的发展趋势。     

新型阅览室应用交嵌式组织模式研究

指出了图书馆现有单一服务模式的弊端，提出了建立多功能交嵌式组织模式的新型阅览室，实现一体化服务，提高图书馆服务效益。     

授权影印版西文图书的编目探讨

在对授权影印版西文图书的特征进行分析描述的基础上，结合西文文献编目原则及MARC21著录格式，探讨了该类出版物的文种归属问题及其编目方法，并提出了建议。     

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.