Faceted search and querying are two well-known paradigms to search the Semantic Web. Querying languages, such as SPARQL, offer expressive means for searching RDF datasets, but they are difficult to use. Query assistants help users to write well-formed queries, but they do not prevent empty results. Faceted search supports exploratory search, i.e., guided navigation that returns rich feedbacks t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the difficulty of applying faceted classification outside of library contexts and also to indicate that faceted approaches are poorly expressed to non-experts. Design/methodology/approach – The faceted approach is being applied outside of its “home” community, with mixed results. The approach is based in part on examination of a broad base of ...

This article presents a theoretical, hypotheses-based framework which describes and structures the multi-faceted effects of inter-organisational networking on the competitive capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises. Three interdependent complexes of influence are distinguished: • the effects of inter-organisational networking on the competitive capacity, • the significance of information...

Troubleshooting search system aims at extracting relevant information to solve the problem at hand. It is often the case that documents in troubleshooting system includes an abundant amount of domain-speci c categories. However, the useful information about the domain-speci c categories, such as relationship between words and categories and relationship between categories, is not fully utilized...

In 2007,we began an outreach program in Linguistics with psychology students in a local majority–minority high school. In the years since, the initial collaboration has grown to include other schools and nurtured a culture of community engagement in the language sciences at the University of Maryland. The program has led to a number of benefits for both the public school students and the Univer...

Without any doubt, for the last decade, online social networks have been hubs for political participation both for elite members such as politicians, parliamentary members, and ordinary citizens. Each online activity leaves digital traces of the users participating which enable researchers to study online political behavior and build multi-faceted sensors to understand the underlying dynamics. ...