The Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL) is a world{wide, distributed collection of computer science technical reports and other relevant materials. In this paper, the authors purpose a number of extensions to the underlying Dienst protocol and software, allowing for the utilization of NCSTRL as a general tool for the online{publication of electronic documents. An enhan...

In an effort to facilitate public involvement, the staff previously solicited public input during the 2011 NRC Regulatory Information Conference (RIC), held in Rockville, MD. During the RIC, GSI–191 was the subject of one of the RIC technical sessions. Information concerning the 2011 RIC is available at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ conference-symposia/ric. The GSI–191 technical session ag...

Even though patients are now using the Web to get useful information, the latest medical information is not available in most languages, except English. Even if patients want to learn about current treatments, they do not want to read English documents filled with technical terms. To mitigate this situation, we are building a patient support system that combines crosslingual information retriev...

The Technical Working Group on Nuclear Power Plant Control and Instrumentation (TWGNPPCI) of IAEA has been active in providing guidance for the I&C field in the form of technical documents and reports. This year the writing of a new TECDOC to address the challenges in the implementing and licensing digital I&C in nuclear power plants was initiated. This paper reports on discussions within this ...

A central issue for making the contents of documents in a digital library accessible to the user is the identification and extraction of technical terms. We propose a method to solve this task in an unsupervised, domain-independent way: We use a nominal group chunker to extract term candidates and select the technical terms from these candidates based on string frequencies retrieved using the M...

Technical Terms (TTs) and/or jargon embedded within technical documents can make it difficult or impossible to understand a document. This is why we would like to investigate a possibility of providing information for the TTs by linking them to relevant lexicon or encyclopedia pages. In this way, additional contextual information relating to the TTs shall be readily available and hopefully make...

The adoption of advanced integration technologies that enable private and public organizations to seamlessly execute their business transactions electronically is still relatively low, especially among governmental bodies and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Current solutions often lack a common understanding of the underlying business document semantics and most existing approaches a...

This research takes place in an industrial context: the CONTINEW Company. This company ensures the storage and security of critical data and technical documentation. Consequently, it is necessary to organize these documents in order to retrieve quickly critical information. The management of this increasing volume of documents requires document classification which is based on indexing techniqu...

The National Marine Fisheries Service's Alaska Fisheries Science Center uses the NOAA Technical Memorandum series to issue informal scientific and technical publications when complete formal review and editorial processing are not appropriate or feasible. Documents within this series reflect sound professional work and may be referenced in the formal scientific and technical literature. Use of ...