Research Goal

Funding

Funding for this research was received from the following sources: ITS-9800696 8/01/98-7/31/01 NSF/CISE/ITO $274,163 "An Intelligent CSCW Workbench: Personalized Analysis and Visualization" N6001-97-C-8535 7/1/97-6/30/00 University of Illinois/sub-DARPA $1,078,991 "The Interspace Prototype: An Analysis Environment Based on Scalable Semantics"

Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge the contributions of the following institutions and individuals: Information Retrieval Research Group, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Science and Technology Information Center, National Science Council, Taiwan for the use of its database.

Approach & Methodology

Testbed: Science and Technology Abstracts, STIC. Techniques: Arizona Noun Phraser-indexing based on the identification of noun phrases in text. Neural Networks Japanese/Chinese indexing and retrieval

Team Members

Dr. Hsinchun Chen hchen@ai.eller.arizona.edu    Dorbin Ng    Chienting Lin      Bin Zhu      Thian-Huat Ong      Marshall Ramsey

Publications

C. Lin and H. Chen "An Automatic Indexing and Neural Network Approach to Concept Retrieval and Classification of Multilingual (Chinese-English) Documents," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Volume 26, Number 1, Pages 1-14, February 1996. M. Ramsey, T. Ong, and H. Chen "Multilingual Input System for the Web - an Open Multimedia Approach of Keyboard and Handwritten Recognition for Chinese and Japanese," Proceedings of IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference (ADL '98), Santa Barbara, CA, April 22-24, 1998, Pages 188-195. H. Chen "The Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project: Federating Repositories and Semantic Research" East Meets West Proceedings of The First Asia Digital Library Workshop, August 6-7, 1998. K. Tolle and H. Chen "Comparing Noun Phrasing Techniques for Use with Medical Digital Library Tools" Journal of the American Society for Information Science Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Volume 51, Number 3, 2000.