E-Librarian Service - User Friendly Semantic Search in Digital Libraries

Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel

(Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam)

1st Edition., 2011, XV, 212 pages, 67 illustrations, 10 in color.
Springer Verlag , Heidelberg, London, New York, 2011
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-642-17742-2

About this book

Key topics

  • Complete overview of Semantic Web technologies, natural language processing, and information retrieval
  • Provides a solution for current problems in digital libraries
  • Shows how to retrieve pertinent documents from a multimedia knowledge base
  • With numerous examples and illustrations

This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.

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