SBIR Phase I: Non-Expert Conceptual Annotation

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目探索了一种文档索引和搜索的方法，该方法用来自语言和语义丰富的本体的“概念术语”取代传统的关键字。其直接研究目标将是确定使用这种丰富的描述性语言是否可以允许非专家（即非档案管理员/图书管理员）有效地用“概念术语”注释媒体资源（特别是非文本媒体），从而有效地提高后续搜索的准确性和召回率。这项研究将为技术和实践提供原型，使半熟练工人（来自种族和经济多样化的社区）能够使用概念性语言有效而轻松地描述内容。这一过程的结果将根据注释的准确性及其在指导浏览和搜索方面的有效性进行评估。使非专家（特别是内容生产者）能够提高搜索质量，即创建丰富而有用的元数据，将使内容的发布和共享更加有效和有用。这对研究界来说可能是一个有用的资源。此外，所提供的技术的发展还可能意味着，可以通过启用新的工作人员来执行概念注释的重要任务来部署语言技术。因此，支持在元数据生产中创造新的半熟练入门级职位，可能会扩大新经济的影响。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project explores an approach to document indexing and search, which replaces conventional keywords with "concept terms" from a linguistically and semantically rich ontology. Its direct research objectives will be to determine whether the use of such a rich descriptive language can allow non-experts (i.e., non-archivists/librarians) to effectively annotate media resources (especially non-textual media) with "concept terms" which usefully improve both the precision and recall of subsequent searches. The research will prototype technologies and practices that enable semi-skilled workers (drawn from ethnically and economically diverse neighborhoods) to usefully and easily describe content using a conceptual language. The results of this process will be evaluated as to the accuracy of the annotations and their effectiveness in guiding browsing and search. Enabling non-experts (especially content producers) to improve the quality of searches, that is, to create rich and useful metadata, will make the publication and sharing of content more effective and useful. This could be a useful resource for the research community. In addition, the development of the proffered technology may also mean that language technologies can be deployed by enabling a new segment of the work force to perform the important task of concept annotation. Thus, supporting the creation of new semi-skilled entry-level positions in metadata production may broaden the impact of the new economy.