SBIR Phase II: Personal-Knowledge-Management eLearning System

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目通过自动组织非结构化数据来响应特定的个人、团体及其活动，从而改善了对知识的访问。Taxonomize Resource Aid （TRA）使用语法、符号学、语义和统计技术来生成和更新资源分类法，这些分类法是针对用户活动的信息语料库（文档、网站等）的多级索引。这些活动分类法与实践相关且个性化，它们提供了增强搜索、自动生成门户、个性化内容管理和知识发现的应用程序。例如，TRA的协调知识目录可以在基于时间的文档（如讨论组）中发现趋势；从非结构化数据（如分布式主题）中提取信息；以及来自监测多个信息源的通知，以了解聚合模式（例如，与合作伙伴相关的新闻）或差异（例如，一个领域的知识缺失可以由另一个领域填补）。第二阶段的开发将采用在教育环境中测试过的成功原型，并创建一个商业产品（最初作为SOAP/WSDL web服务），该产品将授权给在电子学习、搜索和知识管理领域销售软件解决方案的公司。Taxonomize Resource Aid （TRA）将为个人、团体和活动提供量身定制的知识，从而为受可访问性、资源或背景限制的人们提供对知识、指导和协作资源的访问。TRA原型已经被证明对一些正在学习如何做初级研究的大学生有显著的好处。那些在文化、语言或技术方面有困难的人可以从TRA中获得最大的好处，因为它使他们能够加速访问知识，这些知识是基于Taxonomize强大的自动分类功能自动选择的，与他们的活动相关。TRA可以在人们需要组织、管理、访问和使用大量信息和资源的任何领域提供帮助。TRA可以帮助教育、医疗保健、国防和政府组织快速处理信息，特别是在处理紧急和关键情况时。它还可以帮助弱势群体找到必要的资源，并及时了解否则无法监测的变化。TRA提高了知识的可及性、灵活性和适应性以及一般学习能力的可负担性，因此可能有利于各个领域的正式和非正式学习。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project improves access to knowledge by auto-organizing unstructured data to respond to specific individuals, groups, and their activities. Taxonomize Resource Aid (TRA) uses syntactic, semiotic, semantic and statistical techniques to generate and update resource taxonomies, which are multi-level indices into the information corpus (documents, web sites, etc.) specific to users' activities. These active taxonomies are practice-relevant and personalized, and they provide applications of enhanced search, auto-produced portals, personalized content management, and knowledge discovery. For example, TRA's coordinated knowledge directories produce discovery of trends in time-based documents (such as discussion groups); extraction of information from unstructured data (such as distributed themes); and notifications from monitoring multiple information sources for patterns of confluences (e.g., news relevant to collaborating partners) or discrepancies (e.g., knowledge missing in one area that can be filled from another). Phase II development will take the successful prototype that was tested in educational settings, and create a commercial product (initially as a SOAP/WSDL web service) that will be licensed to firms selling software solutions in the areas of e-learning, search, and knowledge management.Taxonomize Resource Aid (TRA) will provide knowledge tailored for individuals, groups, and activities, and thus will provide people who have been limited by accessibility, resources, or background ready access to resources of knowledge, instruction, and collaboration. The TRA prototype has already been shown to provide significant benefits to some university students who were learning how to do primary research. Those who have difficulty with the culture, language, or technology gain the greatest benefits from TRA, because it gives them accelerated access to knowledge that is automatically selected for relevance to their activities, based on Taxonomize's powerful auto-categorization capabilities. TRA can help in any field where people need to organize, manage, access and use large amounts of information and resources. TRA can help improve education, healthcare, defense, and government organizations process information quickly, especially when dealing with immediate and critical situations. It can also help disadvantaged people find necessary resources, and keep updated with changes that would otherwise be infeasible to monitor. TRA improves knowledge accessibility, flexibility and adaptability and affordability of general learning capabilities, and so may benefit formal and informal learning in every area.