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    Viewpoints on emergent semantics
    ( 2006)
    Cudre-Mauroux, P.
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    Abdelmoty, A.I.
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    Catarei, T.
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    Damiani, E.
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    Illaramendi, A.
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    Jarrar, M.
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    Meersman, R.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Parent, C.
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    Sattler, K.-U.
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    Scannapieco, M.
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    Spaccapietra, S.
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    Spyns, P.
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    Tre, G. de
    We introduce a novel view on how to deal with the problems of semantic interoperability in distributed systems. This view is based on the concept of emergent semantics, which sees both the representation of semantics and the discovery of the proper interpretation of symbols as the result of a self-organizing process performed by distributed agents exchanging symbols and having utilities dependent on the proper interpretation of the symbols. This is a complex systems perspective on the problem of dealing with semantics. We highlight some of the distinctive features of our vision and point out preliminary examples of its application.
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    Modelle für semantische Web-Anwendungen
    ( 2005)
    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Fuchs, M.
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    Niederée, C.
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    The layer-seeds term clustering method: Enabling proactive situation-aware product recommendations in e-commerce dialogues
    ( 2005)
    Chen, L.
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    L'Abbate, M.
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    Thiel, U.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
    In e-commerce it is often crucial to provide customers a large choice of relevant offers. Users, however, seldom provides complete and comprehensive descriptions of their desires, therefore user interfaces are needed that can generate automatically expanded queries to the product database and proactively enrich the ongoing dialogue with recommendations of suitable products. Automatic query expansion is mostly based on thesaurus and/or user profiles. In e-commerce applications, specific thesauri reflecting the webstore's product categories are desirable. This work describes a method for the automatic construction of a thesaurus based on existing categories of documents. A clustering algorithm, the "Layer-Seeds method", is introduced, which facilitates the automatic generation of thesaurus reflecting the specific vocabulary occurring in a given collection of documents. The clustering works on terms extracted from the documents in a certain category and organizes them in a tree-like hierarchical structure-a thesaurus. The thesaurus is then employed for automatic query expansion in an e-commerce application in order to obtain better results for product searching. Experiments yield evidence that a significant increase of user satisfaction is achieved.
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    Matchmaking for business processes based on choreographies
    ( 2004)
    Wombacher, A.
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    Frankhauser, P.
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    Mahleko, B.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Using mobile devices for the classroom of the future
    ( 2004)
    Dawabi, P.
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    Wessner, M.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Emergent semantics - Extended and revised version of the DASFAA 2004 paper
    ( 2004)
    Aberer, K.
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    Catarci, T.
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    Cudre-Mauroux, P.
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    Dillon, T.
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    Grimm, S.
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    Hacid, M.-S.
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    Illarramendi, A.
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    Jarrar, M.
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    Kashyap, V.
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    Mecella, M.
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    Mena, E.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Ouksel, A.M.
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    Risse, T.
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    Scannapieco, M.
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    Saltor, F.
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    Santis, L. de
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    Spaccapietra, S.
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    Staab, S.
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    Studer, R.
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    Troyer, O. de
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    Matchmaking for business processes based on choreographics
    ( 2004)
    Wombacher, A.
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    Frankhauser, P.
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    Mahleko, B.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
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    The role of context for information mediation in digital libraries
    ( 2004)
    Neuhold, E.J.
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    Niederée, C.
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    Stewart, A.
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    Frommholz, I.
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    Mehta, B.
    Mediating between available information objects and individual information needs is a central issue within the functionality of a digital library. In the simplest case this is an information request answered by a search engine based on an analysis of information objects within the digital library's information collection. However, neither the information access activity nor the information objects within the collection are isolated entities. They are both equipped with a multifaceted context. The invited talk, which is summarized by this paper, analyzes this context and discusses complementing approaches to make such context explicit and to use it for refining the mediation process within digital libraries.
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    COLLATE - A collaboratory supporting research on historic European films
    ( 2004)
    Thiel, U.
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    Brocks, H.
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    Frommholz, I.
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    Dirsch-Weigand, A.
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    Keiper, J.
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    Stein, A.
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    Neuhold, E.J.