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Role of Naive Ontology in Search and Learn Processes for Domain Novices

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Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities (ICADL 2006)

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In this paper we propose to see the information seeking behaviour of domain novices as search and learn processes. We explore the concept of naïve ontology as the bases for designing browsing/navigation interface of search and learn for domain novices of digital libraries. Naïve ontology is a type of information access interface which allows domain novices to refine their knowledge interactively by acquiring information chunk-by-chunk as they encounter it in digital libraries. Through elicitation and analysis of search and learn processes of domain novices in history and geography, we identified several implications for designing naïve ontology.

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  1. National Institute of Multiomedia Education, 2-12 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan

    Makiko Miwa

  2. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Noriko Kando

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 1-2, Ibaraki, Japan

    Shigeo Sugimoto

  2. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Jane Hunter

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  4. Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba, 305-8550, Ibaraki, Japan

    Atsuyuki Morishima

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Miwa, M., Kando, N. (2006). Role of Naive Ontology in Search and Learn Processes for Domain Novices. In: Sugimoto, S., Hunter, J., Rauber, A., Morishima, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities. ICADL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11931584_41

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