Shell International Petroleum Company, (2009)
Leo Obrst, Patrick Cassidy, Steve Ray, Barry Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Matthew West, ...
Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD there took place the first Upper Ontology Summit (UOS). This was a convening of custodians of several prominent upper ontologies, key technology participants,...
Mapping large-scale Knowledge Organization Systems (2009)
Giunchiglia, Fausto, Soergel, Dagobert, Maltese, Vincenzo, Bertacco, Alessandro
Identifying semantic correspondences between vocabularies is a fundamental step towards enabling interoperability among them. In this paper we report the results of a matching experiment we conducted...
OCLC WorldCat and ArticleFirst on FirstSearch Objectives / (2008)
Searching three information systems
The Many Uses of Digitized Oral History Collections: Implications for Design (2008)
Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, Samuel Gustman, Lydia Fraser, Jinmook Kim, Joan Meyer, ...
Abstract. Oral history- and spoken word collections generally- are assuming increasing importance in digital libraries as the storage, transmission and reproduction infrastructure improves. This...
Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB (2008)
Judith L. Klavans, Eep Sidhu, Carolyn Sheffield, Dagobert Soergel, Jimmy Lin, Eileen Abels, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a fully-implemented system using computational linguistic techniques to apply automatic text mining for the extraction of metadata for image access. We describe...
Xiaoli Huang, Dr. Dagobert Soergel
2002. She is interested in IR, specifically information retrieval interaction and knowledge organization from the user perspective, with a concentration in research methods. She is a research...
This paper sets forth a framework for the use of thesauri and ontologies as knowledge bases in cross-language retrieval. It provides a general introduction to thesaurus functions, structure, and...
The 2006 Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communiqué (2008)
Leo Obrst, Patrick Cassidy, Steve Ray, Barry Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Matthew West, ...
Standards and Technology (NIST), the Upper Ontology Summit (UOS) took place. The Upper Ontology Summit was a convening of custodians of several prominent upper ontologies, key ontology technology...
Searching large collections of recorded speech: A preliminary study (2008)
Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel
This paper reports on an exploratory study of the criteria searchers use when judging the relevance of recorded speech from radio programs and the attributes of a recording on which those judgments...
Dagobert Soergel, Soergel Semweb
. This paper presents a proposal for the long-range development of an open, multifunctional, multilingual system for integrated access to many kinds of knowledge about concepts and terminology. The...
This paper presents a proposal and a call for participation in the long-range development of an open, multifunctional, multilingual system for integrated access to many kinds of ontological and...
Douglas W. Oard, Dina Demner-fushman, Samuel Gustman, William J. Byrne, Dagobert Soergel, Bonnie Dorr, ...
Abstract. The MALACH project seeks to help users find information in a vast multilingual collections of untranscribed oral history interviews. This paper introduces the goals of the project and...
Searching large collections of recorded speech: A preliminary study (2007)
Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel
This paper reports on an exploratory study of the criteria searchers use when judging the relevance of recorded speech from radio programs and the attributes of a recording on which those judgments...
Data models for an integrated thesaurus database (2007)
This paper presents two data models for storing multiple thesauri in a single integrated database to be used as an aid to searchers in multi-database searching, for the construction of conversion...
I.Shafran. Overview of the CLEF-2006 cross-Language speech retrieval track (2007)
Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Ryen W. White, Pavel Pecina, Dagobert Soergel, ...
The CLEF-2006 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track included two tasks: to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition, and to identify time...
Huang, Xiaoli, Soergel, Dagobert
Introduction. The concept of relevance lies at the heart of intellectual access and information retrieval, indeed of reasoning and communication in general; in turn, topical relevance lies at the...
Xiaoli Huang, Dagobert Soergel
Introduction. The concept of relevance lies at the heart of intellectual access and information retrieval, indeed of reasoning and communication in general; in turn, topical relevance lies at the...
Overview of the CLEF-2005 cross-language speech retrieval track (2006)
Ryen W. White, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang
The task for the CLEF-2005 cross-language speech retrieval track was to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition. Seven teams participated, performing...
Search histories for user support in user interfaces (2006)
Anita Komlodi, Dagobert Soergel
The authors describe user interface tools based on search histories to support legal information seekers. The design of the tools was informed by the results of a user study (Komlodi, 2002a) that...
Overview of the CLEF-2005 cross-language speech retrieval track (2006)
Ryen W. White, Dou Jones, Dagobert Soergel, Xiaoli Huang, Glas W. Oard, Gareth J. F
The task for the CLEF-2005 cross-language speech retrieval track was to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition. Seven teams participated, performing...
Relevance Criteria Used by Teachers in Selecting Oral History Materials (2005)
Lawley, Katy Newton, Soergel, Dagobert, Huang, Xiaoli
From a user-centered and task-specific perspective on relevance, we studied the relevance criteria used by teachers - an understudied but important group - who were searching for materials to use in...
Relevance Criteria Used by Teachers in Selecting Oral History Materials (2005)
Lawley, Katy Newton, Soergel, Dagobert, Huang, Xiaoli
From a user-centered and task-specific perspective on relevance, we studied the relevance criteria used by teachers - an understudied but important group - who were searching for materials to use in...
A Typology of Errors in ASR Transcriptions of Oral History Interviews (2005)
Hannah Gladfelter Rubin, Dagobert Soergel
This study examines reasons for errors in machine-produced transcripts of spoken recordings, using Holocaust-survivor testimonies assembled for the MALACH project (Multilingual Access to Large spoken...
Building an Information Retrieval Test Collection for (2004)
Spontaneous Conversational Speech, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel, David Doermann, Xiaoli Huang, G. Craig Murray, ...
Test collections model use cases in ways that facilitate evaluation of information retrieval systems. This paper describes the use of search-guided relevance assessment to create a test collection...
Dagobert Soergel A, Tony Tse B, Laura Slaughter C, Dagobert Soergel, Tony Tse, ...
Healthcare consumers need to find, comprehend, and interpret health information before making informed decisions. Recent work by others and our own work suggest that mismatches in representations of...
Non-professionals are often unable to access or comprehend information in specialized domains because of technical terminology. Understanding domain-specific vocabulary commonly used by laypersons...
Supporting access to large digital oral history archives (2002)
Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, ...
This paper, describes our experience with the creation, indexing and providing access to a very large archive of videotaped oral histories—116,000 hours of digitized interviews in 32 languages from...
Supporting access to large digital oral history archives (2002)
Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, ...
This paper describes our experience with the creation, indexing, and provision of access to a very large archive of videotaped oral histories − 116,000 hours of digitized interviews in 32 languages...
Supporting access to large digital oral history archives (2002)
Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, ...
This paper describes our experience with the creation, indexing, and provision of access to a very large archive of videotaped oral histories- 116,000 hours of digitized interviews in 32 languages...
Attorneys Interacting with Legal Information Systems: (2002)
Tools For Mental, Anita Komlodi, Dagobert Soergel
This paper reports (1) on the results of a user study and (2) search-history-based user interface tools developed based on the results of the study. The research described is part of a dissertation...
This introductory workshop is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies...
Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing (1999)
Ding, Wei, Marchionini, Gary, Soergel, Dagobert
Three types of video surrogates - visual (keyframes), verbal (keywords/phrases), and combination of the two - were designed and studied in a qualitative investigation of user cognitive processes. The...
This paper presents a general information structure model and an interface design that allows users to search and interact with the structure. Both draw power from simplicity. The objective is to...
A Cognitive Model of Document Use during a Research Project. Study I. Document Selection (1998)
Wang, Peiling, Soergel, Dagobert
Reports on a longitudinal study of decision making on document use by academics during an actual research project. ... The following model of the decision-making in the selection process...
A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. Document selection (1998)
Peiling Wang, Dagobert Soergel
This article proposes a model of document selection by IR system by incorporating users ’ document selection and real users of a bibliographic retrieval system. It reports on Part 1 of a...
A Digital Library Model With Rich Semantic Structure (1998)
and collaborative work, the digital library model includes a public information space and private information spaces for individuals and work groups. Users have many tools to manage their private...
Multilingual Thesauri in Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval (1997)
This paper sets forth a framework for the use of thesauri as knowledge bases in cross-language retrieval. It provides a general introduction to thesaurus functions, structure, and construction with...
Diss., Univ. Freiburg/Br.
The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. (1970)
Soergel, Dagobert, Furmaniak, Karl
Reference to and direct storage of primary data is of growing importance. This explains the interest in the description of statistical tables. The brute-force approach to give each stratifier (that...
The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. (1970)
Soergel, Dagobert, Furmaniak, Karl
Reference to and direct storage of primary data is of growing importance. This explains the interest in the description of statistical tables. The brute-force approach to give each stratifier (that...
Some remarks on information languages, their analysis and comparison. (1967)
General remarks on information languages Use of the term "Information Language" (IL) Purposes of an information language-requirements for an information language A general model for the structure of...
Some remarks on information languages, their analysis and comparison. (1967)
General remarks on information languages Use of the term "Information Language" (IL) Purposes of an information language-requirements for an information language A general model for the structure of...
Mathematische Analyse von Dokumentationssystemen. Staatsexamen thesis. (1964)
Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.B.
Healthcare consumers often have difficulty expressing and understanding medical concepts. The goal of this study is to identify and characterize medical expressions or “terms” (linguistic forms...
Healthcare consumers often have difficulty expressing and understanding medical concepts. The goal of this study is to identify and characterize medical expressions or “terms” (linguistic forms...