Methodologies for Designing and Evaluating Information Retrieval Experiments. Australian researchers have been highly successful in the area of information searching for more than two decades. This project will reinforce that position. By developing better measures of how retrieval systems such as web search engines perform, we will be able to advise the providers of such services on how to structure software so as to maximize the utility gained by their customers. Targeted access to the right ....Methodologies for Designing and Evaluating Information Retrieval Experiments. Australian researchers have been highly successful in the area of information searching for more than two decades. This project will reinforce that position. By developing better measures of how retrieval systems such as web search engines perform, we will be able to advise the providers of such services on how to structure software so as to maximize the utility gained by their customers. Targeted access to the right information is a goal of all organizations, regardless of their type, and improved methodologies for conducting information retrieval experiments will have widespread and tangible benefits. The techniques developed will also be applicable in fields such as document categorization, text summarization, and machine learning.Read moreRead less
Static and Dynamic Query Pruning Techniques for Complex Text Retrieval Systems. Targeted access to the right information is a goal of all organizations, regardless of their type, and improved methodologies for implementing information retrieval systems have widespread and tangible benefits. Australian researchers have been highly successful in this area of information searching for more than two decades, and this project will reinforce that position. By developing techniques for providing fast ....Static and Dynamic Query Pruning Techniques for Complex Text Retrieval Systems. Targeted access to the right information is a goal of all organizations, regardless of their type, and improved methodologies for implementing information retrieval systems have widespread and tangible benefits. Australian researchers have been highly successful in this area of information searching for more than two decades, and this project will reinforce that position. By developing techniques for providing faster search, even in the presence of complex query variants and distributed implementations, we will be able to advise the suppliers of such services on how to provide a maximally useful product.
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Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0238392
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$100,000.00
Summary
AraDA: Arafura Digital Archive. The AraDA Project aims to digitally preserve and make available online material relevant to the lands bordering the Arafura Sea (Top End of Australia, Eastern Indonesia, East Timor). For the first time this material will be accessible from a website maintained by the Northern Territory University Library.
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0567319
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$145,000.00
Summary
DADA-HCS: Distributed Access and Data Annotation for the Human Communication Sciences. This project aims to build a National storage network for human
communication sciences data which will enable subscribers to
publish their own data and make use of data provided by other subscribers or third party suppliers. The network will provide infrastructure for rights management of data, in particular making sure that any original conditions on the collection and publication of data are respected. T ....DADA-HCS: Distributed Access and Data Annotation for the Human Communication Sciences. This project aims to build a National storage network for human
communication sciences data which will enable subscribers to
publish their own data and make use of data provided by other subscribers or third party suppliers. The network will provide infrastructure for rights management of data, in particular making sure that any original conditions on the collection and publication of data are respected. The project will support collaborative annotation of data stored in the network so its use can be maximised across disciplines.
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Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0567353
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$98,035.00
Summary
An Intelligent Search Infrastructure for Language Resources on the Web
. Language occupies a central role on the web: most content is expressed in language, and most access takes place via natural language search. Today, investigation of human language depends on access to this vast store of language data. This project will develop new infrastructure for accessing language resources, namely a language-aware search engine. Language technologies will be employed to classify web content, and a ....An Intelligent Search Infrastructure for Language Resources on the Web
. Language occupies a central role on the web: most content is expressed in language, and most access takes place via natural language search. Today, investigation of human language depends on access to this vast store of language data. This project will develop new infrastructure for accessing language resources, namely a language-aware search engine. Language technologies will be employed to classify web content, and a special search keyword 'lang:' will constrain search results to be in the specified language. The system will be integrated with major language archives in Australia and overseas, and deployed on the high performance computing infrastructure at Melbourne University's Advanced Research Computing Centre.
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The Quantum Mechanics of Semantic Space. Quantum mechanics (QM) is a well known and successful theory from physics which has recently attracted quite some public interest. Quantum Mechanics is emerging out of physics and permeating into other areas, for example, information retrieval, human language and cognition. This offers tantalizing possibilities and bizarre implications, some of which, if realized, can lead to genuine breakthroughs in producing information technology to enhance human aware ....The Quantum Mechanics of Semantic Space. Quantum mechanics (QM) is a well known and successful theory from physics which has recently attracted quite some public interest. Quantum Mechanics is emerging out of physics and permeating into other areas, for example, information retrieval, human language and cognition. This offers tantalizing possibilities and bizarre implications, some of which, if realized, can lead to genuine breakthroughs in producing information technology to enhance human awareness in increasingly complex information environments. Through this project, Australia has the possibility to be at the forefront and have a hand in determining such developments.Read moreRead less
A scheme of local compilation of mobile collectors for image and video search engines. The object collector is an important component in a Web search engine. A collector collects Web objects (text, image, video, etc), extracts their features and builds an index file for the search engine. Sending each object to the collector is always the worst option with respect to resource usage because it is the feature, not the entire object, which will be used in indexing and retrieval. An alternative is t ....A scheme of local compilation of mobile collectors for image and video search engines. The object collector is an important component in a Web search engine. A collector collects Web objects (text, image, video, etc), extracts their features and builds an index file for the search engine. Sending each object to the collector is always the worst option with respect to resource usage because it is the feature, not the entire object, which will be used in indexing and retrieval. An alternative is to send a collector to the source site, which has an advantage of distributing computational load and performing summarization and compression. This project proposes a locally compiled mobile collector for image and video search engines.Read moreRead less
Effective Information Retrieval for Partitioned Document Collections. Current information retrieval services make use of massive indexes in order to resolve content-based queries. Monolithic approaches like this have been effective until now because the volume of data stored has been manageable on a single machine or tightly-coupled cluster of machines, and because the data has been available for collection. But with an increasing amount of automatically generated data, and an increasing diversi ....Effective Information Retrieval for Partitioned Document Collections. Current information retrieval services make use of massive indexes in order to resolve content-based queries. Monolithic approaches like this have been effective until now because the volume of data stored has been manageable on a single machine or tightly-coupled cluster of machines, and because the data has been available for collection. But with an increasing amount of automatically generated data, and an increasing diversity of information sources, other approaches are required. In this project we will investigate mechanisms for handling retrieval tasks when the indexes to the data are stored locally with the data, and when no central index is viable.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0775510
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$400,000.00
Summary
Australian Social Science Data Archive: Network Extension and Sub-archive Development. The Australian Social Science Data Archive is a national facility that allows all researchers and members of the public to access a wide range of social science data sets for on-line analysis. The archive contains data that covers forty years of social, political and economic surveys. The archive also acts as a gateway for social science researchers to access data from equivalent overseas institutions in North ....Australian Social Science Data Archive: Network Extension and Sub-archive Development. The Australian Social Science Data Archive is a national facility that allows all researchers and members of the public to access a wide range of social science data sets for on-line analysis. The archive contains data that covers forty years of social, political and economic surveys. The archive also acts as a gateway for social science researchers to access data from equivalent overseas institutions in North America, the European Union and OECD countries.Read moreRead less
Concept learning and Structure Formation for Document Navigation. This proposal is motivated by its interest in document retrieval and
discovery using formal concept analysis. The hypothesis to be tested
is that logical structures can be automatically inferred from
a document collection using information inference and
concept learning.