O objetivo deste trabalho é, através do estudo de diversas tecnologias, desenvolver o protótipo de uma ferramenta capaz de oferecer suporte ao usuário na formulacdo de uma consulta a MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System On Line). A MEDLINE é um sistema de recuperação de informações bibliográficas, na área da biomedicina, desenvolvida pela National Library of Medicine. Ela é uma ferramenta cuja utilizando tem sido ampliada nesta área em decorrência do aumento da utilizando de literatura, disponível eletronicamente, por profissionais da área da saúde. As pessoas, em geral, buscam informação e esperam encontrá-la exatamente de acordo com as suas expectativas, de forma ágil e utilizando todas as fontes de recursos disponíveis. Foi com este propósito que surgiram os primeiros Sistema de Recuperação de Informação (SRI) onde, de forma simplificada, um usuário constrói uma consulta, a qual expressa sua necessidade de informação, em seguida o sistema a processa e os resultados obtidas através dela retornam ao usuário. Grande parte dos usuários encontram dificuldades em representar a sua necessidade de informação de forma a obter resultados satisfatórios em um SRI. Os termos que o usuário escolhe para compor a consulta nem sempre são os mesmos que o sistema reconhece. A fim de que um usuário seja bem sucedido na definição dos termos que compõem a sua consulta é aconselhável que ele conheça a terminologia que foi empregada na indexação dos itens que ele deseja recuperar ou que possa contar com um intermediário que possua esse conhecimento. Em situações em que nenhuma dessas possibilidades seja verdadeira recursos que viabilizem uma consulta bem sucedida se fazem necessários. Este trabalho, inicialmente, apresenta um estudo geral sobre os Sistemas de Recuperação de Informações (SRI), enfocando todos os processos envolvidos e relacionados ao armazenamento, organização e a própria recuperação. Posteriormente, são destacados aspectos relacionados aos vocabulários e classificações medicas em uso, os quais serão Úteis para uma maior compreensão das dificuldades encontradas pelos usuários durante a interação com um sistema com esta finalidade. E, finalmente, é apresentado o protótipo do Sistema para Formulação de Consultas a MEDLINE, bem como seus componentes e funcionalidades. O Sistema para Formulação de Consultas a MEDLINE foi desenvolvido com o intuito de permitir que o usuário utilize qualquer termo na formulação de uma consulta destinada a MEDLINE. Ele possibilita a integração de diferentes terminologias médicas, originárias de vocabulários e classificações disponíveis em língua portuguesa e atualmente em uso. Esta abordagem permite a criação de uma terminologia biomédica mais completa, sendo que cada termo mantém relacionamentos, os quais descrevem a sua semântica, com outros. / The goal of this work is, through the study of many technologies, to develop the prototype of a tool able to offer support to the user in query formulation to the MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System On Line). The MEDLINE is a bibliographical information retrieval system in the biomedicine area developed by National Library of Medicine. It is a tool whose usefulness has been amplifyed in this area by the increase of literature utilization, eletronically available, by health care profissionals. People, in general, look for information and are interested in finding it exactly like their expectations, in an agile way and using every single information source available. With this purpouse the first Information Retrieval System (IRS ) emerged, where in a simplifyed way, a user defines a query, that expresses an information necessity and, one step ahead, the system processes it and returns to the user answers from the query. Most of the users think is difficult to represent their information necessity in order to be succesful in searching an IRS. The terms that the user selects to compose the query are not always the same that the system recognizes. In order to be successfull in the definition of the terms that will compose his/her query is advisable that the user know the terminology that was employed in the indexing process of the wanted items or that he/she can have an intermediary person who knows about it. In many situations where no one of these possibilities can be true, resources that make a successfull query possible will be needed. This work, firstly, presents a general study on IRS focusing all the process involved and related to the storage, organization and retrieval. Lately, aspects related to the medical classifications and vocabulary are emphasized, which will be usefull for a largest comprehension of the difficulties found by users during interaction with a system like this. And, finally, the prototype of the Query Formulation System to MEDLINE is presented, as well as its components and funcionalities. The Query Formulation System to MEDLINE was developed with the intention of allowing the user to use any term in the formulation of a query to the MEDLINE. It allows the integration of different medical terminologies originated from classifications and vocabulary available in Portuguese language and in use today. This approach permits the creation of a more complete biomedical terminology in which each term maintains relationships that describe its semantic.

O objetivo deste trabalho é, através do estudo de diversas tecnologias, desenvolver o protótipo de uma ferramenta capaz de oferecer suporte ao usuário na formulacdo de uma consulta a MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System On Line). A MEDLINE é um sistema de recuperação de informações bibliográficas, na área da biomedicina, desenvolvida pela National Library of Medicine. Ela é uma ferramenta cuja utilizando tem sido ampliada nesta área em decorrência do aumento da utilizando de literatura, disponível eletronicamente, por profissionais da área da saúde. As pessoas, em geral, buscam informação e esperam encontrá-la exatamente de acordo com as suas expectativas, de forma ágil e utilizando todas as fontes de recursos disponíveis. Foi com este propósito que surgiram os primeiros Sistema de Recuperação de Informação (SRI) onde, de forma simplificada, um usuário constrói uma consulta, a qual expressa sua necessidade de informação, em seguida o sistema a processa e os resultados obtidas através dela retornam ao usuário. Grande parte dos usuários encontram dificuldades em representar a sua necessidade de informação de forma a obter resultados satisfatórios em um SRI. Os termos que o usuário escolhe para compor a consulta nem sempre são os mesmos que o sistema reconhece. A fim de que um usuário seja bem sucedido na definição dos termos que compõem a sua consulta é aconselhável que ele conheça a terminologia que foi empregada na indexação dos itens que ele deseja recuperar ou que possa contar com um intermediário que possua esse conhecimento. Em situações em que nenhuma dessas possibilidades seja verdadeira recursos que viabilizem uma consulta bem sucedida se fazem necessários. Este trabalho, inicialmente, apresenta um estudo geral sobre os Sistemas de Recuperação de Informações (SRI), enfocando todos os processos envolvidos e relacionados ao armazenamento, organização e a própria recuperação. Posteriormente, são destacados aspectos relacionados aos vocabulários e classificações medicas em uso, os quais serão Úteis para uma maior compreensão das dificuldades encontradas pelos usuários durante a interação com um sistema com esta finalidade. E, finalmente, é apresentado o protótipo do Sistema para Formulação de Consultas a MEDLINE, bem como seus componentes e funcionalidades. O Sistema para Formulação de Consultas a MEDLINE foi desenvolvido com o intuito de permitir que o usuário utilize qualquer termo na formulação de uma consulta destinada a MEDLINE. Ele possibilita a integração de diferentes terminologias médicas, originárias de vocabulários e classificações disponíveis em língua portuguesa e atualmente em uso. Esta abordagem permite a criação de uma terminologia biomédica mais completa, sendo que cada termo mantém relacionamentos, os quais descrevem a sua semântica, com outros. / The goal of this work is, through the study of many technologies, to develop the prototype of a tool able to offer support to the user in query formulation to the MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System On Line). The MEDLINE is a bibliographical information retrieval system in the biomedicine area developed by National Library of Medicine. It is a tool whose usefulness has been amplifyed in this area by the increase of literature utilization, eletronically available, by health care profissionals. People, in general, look for information and are interested in finding it exactly like their expectations, in an agile way and using every single information source available. With this purpouse the first Information Retrieval System (IRS ) emerged, where in a simplifyed way, a user defines a query, that expresses an information necessity and, one step ahead, the system processes it and returns to the user answers from the query. Most of the users think is difficult to represent their information necessity in order to be succesful in searching an IRS. The terms that the user selects to compose the query are not always the same that the system recognizes. In order to be successfull in the definition of the terms that will compose his/her query is advisable that the user know the terminology that was employed in the indexing process of the wanted items or that he/she can have an intermediary person who knows about it. In many situations where no one of these possibilities can be true, resources that make a successfull query possible will be needed. This work, firstly, presents a general study on IRS focusing all the process involved and related to the storage, organization and retrieval. Lately, aspects related to the medical classifications and vocabulary are emphasized, which will be usefull for a largest comprehension of the difficulties found by users during interaction with a system like this. And, finally, the prototype of the Query Formulation System to MEDLINE is presented, as well as its components and funcionalities. The Query Formulation System to MEDLINE was developed with the intention of allowing the user to use any term in the formulation of a query to the MEDLINE. It allows the integration of different medical terminologies originated from classifications and vocabulary available in Portuguese language and in use today. This approach permits the creation of a more complete biomedical terminology in which each term maintains relationships that describe its semantic.

One of the challenges in medical information retrieval is the terminology gap between the documents (commonly written by medical professional, using medical jargons), and the queries (commonly composed by non professional, using layman terms). In this thesis, we investigate the effect of query expansion, using domain-specific knowledge resource, to deal with this challenge. We use the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), a repository of biomedical vocabularies, and utilize two of its resources: the Metathesaurus and the Semantic Network. We use the query set and document set provided by CLEF eHealth organizer. The query sets, provided for the medical information retrieval shared task, represent two different use cases of medical information retrieval. We experiment with query expansion using synonymous terms and non-synonymous concepts, blind relevance feedback, field weighting, and linear interpolation of different systems. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschreibt und analysiert Methoden, um aus den Datenbeständen der Wikipedia in verschiedenen Sprachen einen multilingualen Thesaurus zu erstellen. Dabei sollen insbesondere die Beziehungen zwischen Termen (Wörtern, Wortformen, Phrasen) zu sprachunabhängigen Konzepten extrahiert werden sowie die Beziehungen zwischen solchen Konzepten, speziell Beziehungen der Über- bzw. Unterordnung (Subsumtion) sowie der semantischen Verwandtheit und Ähnlichkeit. Zu diesem Zweck werden die Anforderungen sowie die verfügbaren Rohdaten analysiert, ein Prototyp zur Extraktion der gewünschten Daten entwickelt und die mit dem Prototyp gewonnenen Daten in Bezug auf die zuvor formulierten Anforderungen evaluiert.

Bill Gray of Project Pluto brought to our attention an error of 0.03° in the listed latitude of our Kitt Peak telescope. While correcting the table where this occurred, we also take the opportunity to update the instrument properties and weather statistics of our remote telescopes.

Тема выпускной квалификационной работы – «Моделирование двуязычного тезауруса инвестиционных терминов (на материале англоязычных и русскоязычных текстов тематики "Инвестиционная деятельность")». Цель исследования заключается в создании модели двуязычного словаря-тезауруса терминов инвестиционной деятельности. Объектом исследования данной работы служат инвестиционные термины в английском и русском языках. Предметом исследования является моделирование двуязычного русско-английского тезауруса инвестиционных терминов. Для научной работы использовались такие общенаучные методы исследования, как описание, классификация, метод сплошной выборки, а также лингвистические методы исследования, а именно: метод дефиниционного анализа, метод контекстного анализа, семантический анализ. Научная новизна исследования заключается в разработке специального двуязычного тезауруса, включающего терминологию инвестиционной деятельности, которым может воспользоваться не только представитель профессиональной экономической среды, но и любой актор, имеющий целью познание терминов сферы инвестиционной деятельности. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы в практической деятельности переводчика, для преподавания теории и практики перевода будущим переводчикам и лингвистам, а также могут быть применены в учебно-методической деятельности при создании учебных пособий по переводу и достижению эквивалентности текстов. / The topic of the present graduation thesis is “Modelling of Bilingual Thesaurus of Investment Terms (A Study of English and Russian Texts in the field of Investment Activity)”. The purpose of the study is to develop a model of a bilingual dictionary of investment terms. The subject of the research is investment terms in the English and Russian languages. The scope of the research includes developing the principles of compiling a bilingual dictionary of investment terms, including an appropriate methodological base. We used a set of scientific methods common for different scientific fields: descriptive method, classification of units, continuous sampling methods; as well as specific linguistic methods such as definition analysis, context analysis, semantic analysis. The work is novel in that it develops an English-Russian bilingual thesaurus of investment terms which can be used not only by specialists in linguistics, translation, and terminography, but also any person who deals with investment activities. The results of the research may be used in translation and interpreting practice, as teaching materials for students majoring in translation.

Stratégie d'indexation automatique de textes en langue naturelle. Intérêts aux aspects structurels du document pour: ― la définition d'une stratégie globale d'indexation fondée sur l'exploitation de la structure logique du document, ainsi que d'éléments textuels particuliers (titres ...) ― la définition de termes d'indexation à partir de celle de syntagmes de la langue naturelle. Les termes d'indexation sont normalisés via une base de connaissances prédéfinie. Les principaux algorithmes utilisés sont présentés, ainsi que les résultats d'expérimentation sur un corpus technique (normes d'exploitation et de fonctionnement du NET).

As advances in information and networking technologies, huge amount of information typically in the form of text documents are available online. To facilitate efficient and effective access to documents relevant to users¡¦ information needs, information retrieval systems have been imposed a more significant role than ever. One challenging issue in information retrieval is word mismatch that refers to the phenomenon that concepts may be described by different words in user queries and/or documents. The word mismatch problem, if not appropriately addressed, would degrade retrieval effectiveness critically of an information retrieval system. In this thesis, we develop a cluster-based query expansion technique to solve the word mismatch problem. Using the traditional query expansion techniques (i.e., global analysis and local feedback) as performance benchmarks, the empirical results suggest that when a user query only consists of one query term, the global analysis technique is more effective. However, if a user query consists of two or more query terms, the cluster-based query expansion technique can provide a more accurate query result, especially within the first few top-ranked documents retrieved.

Dans cette recherche, nous abordons le problème de le recherche de services qui répondent à des besoins des utilisateurs exprimés sous forme de requête en texte libre. Notre objectif est de résoudre les problèmes qui affectent l'efficacité des modèles de recherche d'information existant lorsqu'ils sont appliqués à la recherche de services dans un corpus rassemblant des descriptions standard de ces services. Ces problèmes sont issus du fait que les descriptions des services sont brèves. En effet, les fournisseurs de services n'utilisent que quelques termes pour décrire les services souhaités. Ainsi, lorsque ces descriptions sont différentes des phrases dans les requêtes ce qui diminue l'efficacité des modèles classiques qui dépendent de traits observables au lieu de traits sémantiques latents du texte. Nous avons adapté une famille de modèles de recherche d'information (IR) dans le but de contribuer à accroître l'efficacité acquise avec les modèles existant concernant la découverte de services. En outre, nous avons mené des expériences systématiques afin de comparer notre famille de modèles IR avec ceux de l'état de l'art portant sur la découverte de service. Des résultats des expériences, nous concluons que notre modèle basé sur l'extension des requêtes via un thésaurus co-occurrence est plus efficace en terme des mesures classiques utilisées en IR que tous les modèles étudiés dans cette recherche. Par conséquent, nous avons mis en place ce modèle dans S3niffer, qui est un moteur de recherche de service basé sur leur description standard. / In this research, we address the problem of retrieving services which fulfil users' need expressed in query in free text. Our goal is to cope the term mismatch problems which affect the effectiveness of service retrieval models applied in prior re- search on text descriptions-based service retrieval models. These problems are caused due to service descriptions are brief. Service providers use few terms to describe desired services, thereby, when these descriptions are different to the sentences in queries, term mismatch problems decrease the effectiveness in classical models which depend on the observable text features instead of the latent semantic features of the text. We have applied a family of Information Retrieval (IR) models for the purpose of contributing to increase the effectiveness acquired with the models applied in prior research on service retrieval. Besides, we have conducted systematic experiments to compare our family of IR models with those used in the state-of-the-art in service discovery. From the outcomes of the experiments, we conclude that our model based on query expansion via a co-occurrence thesaurus outperforms the effectiveness of all the models studied in this research. Therefore, we have implemented this model in S3niffer, which is a text description-based service search engine.

Dans cette recherche, nous abordons le problème de le recherche de services qui répondent à des besoins des utilisateurs exprimés sous forme de requête en texte libre. Notre objectif est de résoudre les problèmes qui affectent l'efficacité des modèles de recherche d'information existant lorsqu'ils sont appliqués à la recherche de services dans un corpus rassemblant des descriptions standard de ces services. Ces problèmes sont issus du fait que les descriptions des services sont brèves. En effet, les fournisseurs de services n'utilisent que quelques termes pour décrire les services souhaités. Ainsi, lorsque ces descriptions sont différentes des phrases dans les requêtes ce qui diminue l'efficacité des modèles classiques qui dépendent de traits observables au lieu de traits sémantiques latents du texte. Nous avons adapté une famille de modèles de recherche d'information (IR) dans le but de contribuer à accroître l'efficacité acquise avec les modèles existant concernant la découverte de services. En outre, nous avons mené des expériences systématiques afin de comparer notre famille de modèles IR avec ceux de l'état de l'art portant sur la découverte de service. Des résultats des expériences, nous concluons que notre modèle basé sur l'extension des requêtes via un thésaurus co-occurrence est plus efficace en terme des mesures classiques utilisées en IR que tous les modèles étudiés dans cette recherche. Par conséquent, nous avons mis en place ce modèle dans S3niffer, qui est un moteur de recherche de service basé sur leur description standard. / In this research, we address the problem of retrieving services which fulfil users' need expressed in query in free text. Our goal is to cope the term mismatch problems which affect the effectiveness of service retrieval models applied in prior re- search on text descriptions-based service retrieval models. These problems are caused due to service descriptions are brief. Service providers use few terms to describe desired services, thereby, when these descriptions are different to the sentences in queries, term mismatch problems decrease the effectiveness in classical models which depend on the observable text features instead of the latent semantic features of the text. We have applied a family of Information Retrieval (IR) models for the purpose of contributing to increase the effectiveness acquired with the models applied in prior research on service retrieval. Besides, we have conducted systematic experiments to compare our family of IR models with those used in the state-of-the-art in service discovery. From the outcomes of the experiments, we conclude that our model based on query expansion via a co-occurrence thesaurus outperforms the effectiveness of all the models studied in this research. Therefore, we have implemented this model in S3niffer, which is a text description-based service search engine.