The emergence of the Internet has made the global information communications much easier than before. Users can navigate the desired information over the Internet by means of search engines. Even though search engine can help users search specified topic in a primary way, users usually cannot gain the overall idea of what the entire navigated results mean. In addition, information over the Internet keeps changing. Users cannot even keep track of the changes, let alone to comprehend the meanings of such changes. Consequently, this research proposes a two-stage incremental approach to figuring out the concept structure that represents the main concepts of the search results in the first stage, and keeping track of the concept changes with time based on spreading activation theory to assist users in the second stage.
Experiments are conducted to examine the feasibility of our proposed approach. The first experiment is to evaluate the results from the first stage. It shows that the performance on recall and precision is quite satisfactory based on human experts¡¦ results. The second experiment is to examine the changing results from the entire proposed approach. It shows that high degree of agreement with our results is achieved from domain experts. Both experiments justify the feasibility of our proposed approach in real applications. That is, applying our proposed approach, users can easily focus on the topic they are interested in and learn its trend with great support.
Keywords: Internet, Concepts Extraction, Concept Change Detection, Spreading Activation Theory.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0725104-204936 |
| Date | 25 July 2004 |
| Creators | Chang, Chia-Hao |
| Contributors | none, none, Te-Min Chang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0725104-204936 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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