Support System of Information Acquiring to Understand Concept Systematically

Accession number;05A0661062
Title;Support System of Information Acquiring to Understand Concept Systematically
Author; NISHIHARA YOKO (Osaka Univ. Graduate School of Engineering Sci., JPN) SUNAYAMA WATARU (Hiroshima City Univ., Fac. Information Sci., JPN) YACHIDA MASAHIKO (Osaka Univ. Graduate School of Engineering Sci., JPN)
Journal Title;Proceedings of the Annual Conference on JSAI (CD-ROM)
Journal Code:X0580B
ISSN:
VOL.19th;NO.;PAGE.1C3-02(2005)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.5, TBL.2, REF.11
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;With the increased availability of search engines, we can obtain more information from the Web. Since a person doesn't have knowledge related to an unfamiliar concept, it is difficult to understand the meaning. Moreover, Web pages given by a search engine are not displayed in the order of their informational difficulty. So, he has to retrieve more easier Web pages again. In this paper, we propose an information acquiring support system for understanding unfamiliar concepts by systematically studying the related knowledge. First, the system obtains Web pages include the inputted keywords describing the concept. Next, it divides them into clusters. Then, it gives values of difficulty to the clusters and sequences them. Finally, it outputs clusters on a plane whose vertical axis denotes difficulty and whose horizontal axis denotes their sequences. Experimental results proved that the system can supports users in understanding unfamiliar concepts after grasping related knowledge. (author abst.)