Hypermedia Research Unit

Publications

Selected publications on thesaurus-based retrieval

Tudhope D., Binding C. 2005. Towards Terminology Services: experiences with a pilot web service thesaurus browser. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, (DC 2005), 269-273.

Binding C. 2005. XML Techniques for the Representation and Interchange of Thesaurus Data. D-Lib Magazine Volume 11 Number 1, January 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/01inbrief.html#BINDING

Blocks, D. 2004. A qualitative analysis of thesaurus integration for end-user searching. Ph.D. thesis. Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK.

Tudhope D., Binding C. 2004. A Case Study of a Faceted Approach to Knowledge Organisation and Retrieval in the Cultural Heritage Sector. Digicult Thematic Issue 6 - Resource Discovery Technologies for the Heritage Sector pp. 28-33 http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php [pdf 4.8MB hi-res, 1.8MB lo-res]

Binding C., Tudhope D. 2004. Integrating Faceted Structure into the Search Process. Proceedings 8th International Society of Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2004), UCL London. (Ed: Ia C. McIlwaine), Advanced in knowledge Organization, 9, Ergon Verlag. pp. 67-72.

Jones I., Cunliffe D., Tudhope D. 2004. Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Organization Systems as an aid to Retrieval. Proceedings 8th International Society of Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2004), UCL London. (Ed: Ia C. McIlwaine), Advanced in knowledge Organization, 9, Ergon Verlag. pp. 351-356.

Binding C., Tudhope D. 2004. KOS at your Service: Programmatic Access to knowledge Organisation Systems. Journal of Digital Information, 4(4), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Binding/

Tudhope D., Koch T. 2004. New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems: introduction to a special issue Journal of Digital Information, 4(4), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/editorial/

Presentations on FACET were given at ISKO, JCDL, ECDL, MDA conferences in 2002. The JCDL PowerPoint presentation which contains video screen capture demonstrating use of the current prototype gives an overview of results to date.

Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. 2002. Compound Descriptors in Context: A Matching Function for Classifications and Thesauri. Proceeding of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland. ACM Press. 84-93. (one of top 7 ranked papers: selected as candidate for best paper award) presentation (ppt)  full paper (pdf)

Video clips from the presentation (Note: to view these files you will need the Camtasia TSCC Codec)

  1. Map user input to thesaurus terms and facets (avi 123KB)
  2. Double clicking on a query term for more context in the thesaurus browser (avi 78KB)
  3. Dragging thesaurus terms into the faceted query (avi 179KB)
  4. Feedback on effect of semantic expansion setting for query terms (avi 142KB)
  5. After running query, double clicking a result item for feedback on match (avi 159KB)

Tudhope D. 2003. Knowledge Organisation Systems. Presentation for Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries  presentation (ppt 122KB)

Blocks D., Binding C., Cunliffe C., Tudhope D. Qualitative evaluation of a thesaurus-based retrieval system. Proceedings (ECDL 2002) 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, (M. Agosti, C. Thanos eds.), Rome. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer, 2002. 346-361. Springer-Verlag full paper (pdf)

Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. 2002. Representation and Retrieval in Faceted Systems. (Ed: M. Lpez-Huertas), Proceedings 7th International Society of Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO 2002), Granada. Advanced in knowledge Organization, 8, Ergon Verlag. 191-197. full text of final draft version (Word)

Tudhope D., Binding C., Blocks D., Cunliffe D. 2002. Thesaurus based indexing and retrieval. Proceedings Annual MDA Conference. www.mda.org.uk/conference2002/paper15.htm

Jones C., Alani H., Tudhope D. 2002. Geographical Terminology Servers - Closing the Semantic Divide. In: (Goodchild M., Duckham M., Worboys M. Eds.) Perspectives on Geographic Information Science, ch 11, 201-218. Taylor and Francis.

Tudhope D., Alani H., Jones C. 2001. Augmenting thesaurus relationships: possibilities for retrieval. Journal of Digital Information, 1(8), http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Tudhope/
Translation (Hungarian, slightly abridged) for szavak.hu Digital Library website.
http://szavak.hu/szavak/hun/source/ref/system/3_Augmenting_Final.html

Cunliffe D., Kritou E., Tudhope D. 2001. Usability Evaluation for Museum Web Sites. Museum Management and Curatorship, 19(3):229-252. Elsevier Science.

Jones C., Alani H., D. Tudhope. 2001. Geographical information retrieval with ontologies of place. D. Montello (ed), Spatial Information Theory Foundations of Geographic Information Science, COSIT 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2205, 323-335.

Tudhope D., Cunliffe D. 2001. Audience and access: Evaluating access tools for multimedia collections. MDA information, 5(3), 75-82. Museum Documentation Association.

Alani H., Jones C., Tudhope D. 2000. Ontology-driven Geographic Information Retrieval. Proceedings 1st International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience2000).

Alani H., Jones C., Tudhope D. 2000. Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-based Retrieval. Proceedings (ECDL2000) Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (J. Borbinha, T. Baker eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer, 45-58.

Tudhope D. Cunliffe D. 1999. Semantic index hypermedia: linking information disciplines. ACM Computing Surveys, Electronic Symposium on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 31(4es), http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/surveys/1999-31/

Tudhope D., Taylor C. 1998. Terminology as a search aid: Using SHIC for public access. MDA Information, 3(1), 79-84. Museum Documentation Association, Station Road, Cambridge.

Tudhope D., Taylor C. 1997. Navigation via Similarity: automatic linking based on semantic closeness. Information Processing and Management, 33(2), 233-242. Elsevier Science.

Cunliffe D., Taylor C., Tudhope D. 1997. Query-based navigation in semantically indexed hypermedia. Proceedings 8th ACM Conference on Hypertext (Hypertext'97), Southampton, 87-95. full text (pdf)

Tudhope D., Taylor C. 1996. Flexible Access to Multimedia Museum Collections. Proceedings Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts (EVA'96), London, 7.1- 7.11

Tudhope D., Taylor C., Beynon-Davies P. 1995. Taxonomic Distance: Classification and Navigation. Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums: Multimedia Computing and Museums (ed. D. Bearman), San Diego, 322-334.

Tudhope D., Taylor C., Beynon-Davies P. 1995. Semantic Navigation Tools for Museum Hypermedia. Computers and the History of Art (CHArt), 5(2), 51-63.

Tudhope D., Beynon-Davies P., Taylor C., Jones C. 1994. Virtual Architecture based on a Binary Relational Model: A Museum Hypermedia Application. Hypermedia 6(3), 174-192.

Beynon-Davies P., Tudhope D., Taylor C., Jones C. 1994. A Semantic Database Approach to Intelligent Hypermedia Systems. Information and Software Technology 36 (6), 323-329.

Taylor C., Tudhope D., Beynon-Davies P. 1994. Representation and Manipulation of Conceptual, Temporal and Geographical Knowledge in a Museum Hypermedia System. Proc. ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology, Edinburgh, 239-244.