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
Accurate Context-Aware Search for Managed Document Collections. Search is a key component of a vast range of computing applications. However, while search on large collections of general-purpose text is well-understood, and the best systems are highly effective, search on smaller or special-purpose collections is much less reliable and has attracted relatively little research. By identifying general ways of using context such as user history or prior page usefulness, the quality of search in s ....Accurate Context-Aware Search for Managed Document Collections. Search is a key component of a vast range of computing applications. However, while search on large collections of general-purpose text is well-understood, and the best systems are highly effective, search on smaller or special-purpose collections is much less reliable and has attracted relatively little research. By identifying general ways of using context such as user history or prior page usefulness, the quality of search in such cases can be greatly improved. Products that make use of these principles will provide greater workplace efficiency and be able to locate information that other search tools cannot identify.Read moreRead less
Personalised Ontology Learning and Mining for Web Information Gathering. The project will provide a flexible framework for a sound theoretical model of personalised systems. It will significantly influence the development of personalised Web services and many leading industry organisations that attempt to deliver personalised services to their valuable customers. The proposed project will also strengthen the pre-existing international collaboration networks. It will establish Australian researc ....Personalised Ontology Learning and Mining for Web Information Gathering. The project will provide a flexible framework for a sound theoretical model of personalised systems. It will significantly influence the development of personalised Web services and many leading industry organisations that attempt to deliver personalised services to their valuable customers. The proposed project will also strengthen the pre-existing international collaboration networks. It will establish Australian researchers leading position in the related research fields and communities, and provide an established paradigm for other researchers to follow. In addition, the project will provide significant contributions to Australian National Research Priority in the areas of Smart Information Use.Read moreRead less
Content-based image retrieval using interactive feedback. Storage and retrieval of visual information plays an important role in multimedia systems. We aim to develop a method to retrieve images and visual information from multimedia databases and multimedia systems. The method will go beyond simple similarity search to retrieval data on knowledge by accommodating knowledge acquisition and sequential learning techniques, and will be able to handle complex queries with partial information. The ....Content-based image retrieval using interactive feedback. Storage and retrieval of visual information plays an important role in multimedia systems. We aim to develop a method to retrieve images and visual information from multimedia databases and multimedia systems. The method will go beyond simple similarity search to retrieval data on knowledge by accommodating knowledge acquisition and sequential learning techniques, and will be able to handle complex queries with partial information. The technology developed will find many applications in the multimedia area such as education, medical imaging, desktop publishing, advertising, business presentation, and engineering design.Read moreRead less
Privacy preserving data sharing in data mining environments. Preserving privacy in data mining among various enterprises and organisations is essential for many real world applications in areas like health surveillance, business analysis, fraud detection and terror protection. Efficient and effective techniques are badly needed to protect privacy in data sharing and data mining. The developed cutting-edge techniques in this project will be implemented in freely available open source software too ....Privacy preserving data sharing in data mining environments. Preserving privacy in data mining among various enterprises and organisations is essential for many real world applications in areas like health surveillance, business analysis, fraud detection and terror protection. Efficient and effective techniques are badly needed to protect privacy in data sharing and data mining. The developed cutting-edge techniques in this project will be implemented in freely available open source software tools, empowering Australian organisations to utilise the techniques to develop intelligent systems in data sharing environments. These techniques will ultimately lead to better utilisation of the information available in many enterprises and organisations.Read moreRead less
Managing and Mining Evolving Ontologies through combining Patterns Languages and Data Mining. Data mining offers insight into the substantial and growing repositories of medical data while pattern languages offer the ability to provide a high level conceptual designs of an artifact or process. This project thus promises to facilitate, on the one hand, the discovery of medical knowledge from large quantities of clinical or epidemiological data, while also providing a better way of constructing a ....Managing and Mining Evolving Ontologies through combining Patterns Languages and Data Mining. Data mining offers insight into the substantial and growing repositories of medical data while pattern languages offer the ability to provide a high level conceptual designs of an artifact or process. This project thus promises to facilitate, on the one hand, the discovery of medical knowledge from large quantities of clinical or epidemiological data, while also providing a better way of constructing and validating medically oriented design patterns which can then be used in medical data collection systems.Read moreRead less
A scheme and a formal language for interactive video. Video has been increasingly used in many fields and plays an important role in our daily life. Most traditional video players and video formats only provide linear interaction, such as play, fast forward, fast backward or jump to a certain frame of a video stream indicated by a sequence or time on a random access device. This project aims at enabling a hyperlink type of interactions for video data through the development of video interaction ....A scheme and a formal language for interactive video. Video has been increasingly used in many fields and plays an important role in our daily life. Most traditional video players and video formats only provide linear interaction, such as play, fast forward, fast backward or jump to a certain frame of a video stream indicated by a sequence or time on a random access device. This project aims at enabling a hyperlink type of interactions for video data through the development of video interaction mark-up language (VIML). It can find many applications in education, marketing, web presentation and digital TV.Read moreRead less
Indexes Allowing Fast and Efficient Text Search. Since the arrival of search engines such as Google, it has become an expectation that we can find a few words in a very large amount of text very quickly. This is also true of biologists, who expect to be able to submit protein sequences for matching against a massive database and retrieve and answer in seconds. If successful, this project will invent fundamental software that will allow the discovery of words in text much more quickly, and using ....Indexes Allowing Fast and Efficient Text Search. Since the arrival of search engines such as Google, it has become an expectation that we can find a few words in a very large amount of text very quickly. This is also true of biologists, who expect to be able to submit protein sequences for matching against a massive database and retrieve and answer in seconds. If successful, this project will invent fundamental software that will allow the discovery of words in text much more quickly, and using less computing resources than current methods. The benefits of this technology to the searching public, scientists, and industry will be immediate as productivity will be improved and costs reduced.Read moreRead less