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We focus on clarifying the unique characteristics of seeking behaviors after obtaining results from a search engine. We conducted an experimental study of Web information-seeking behaviors by comparing two different types of tasks by recording browser logs and screen capture video. The participants were 11 undergraduate and 5 graduate students. They were given two tasks: A "Report Task"...
The goal of this paper is to cross-lingually analyze multilingual blogs collected with a topic keyword. The framework of collecting multilingual blogs with a topic keyword is designed as the blog feed retrieval procedure. Multilingual queries for retrieving blog feeds are created from Wikipedia entries. Finally, we cross-lingually and cross-culturally compare less well known facts and opinions that...
This paper introduces the NTCIR (NII Test Collection for Information Retrieval and access technologies) Project and its evaluation workshop series called NTCIR Workshops, which are designed to enhance research in information access technologies, such as information retrieval, text summarization, question answering, text mining, and their cross-lingual efforts by providing infrastructure for large-scale...
We have developed a content construction system for collaborative learning based on a Wiki, a Web- based collaborative document authoring system. Requirements for such a tool are explained in three aspects (usability, content construction, easy and secure operation) and implemented accordingly. Experiment on usability of the system interface suggested improvement from a common Wiki.
As part of research in progress on the study and design of an ontology knowledge model, this paper focuses on development of a shape-grammar schema for extracting attributes of spatial organization of a subset of cultural heritage relics, namely, caravanserais, from a selected corpus with a common architectural language of design. First, shape-grammar rules for classification of caravanserais of the...
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