I-Corps: WikiHyperGlossary - an information literacy technology

I-Corps：WikiHyperGlossary - 一种信息素养技术

• 批准号: 1445710
• 负责人: Robert Belford
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas Little Rock
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; WikiHyperGlossary; information; literacy; technology

The importance of literacy, the ability to read and comprehend a written document is so great in the modern world that the United Nations considers literacy to be a fundamental human right. From legal documents to educational materials to cultural heritage, the importance of understanding the information contained in written texts is fundamental to modern society. The Internet has created new challenges for literacy, where people can easily access a document that they lack the domain specific background to understand. Consequentially, they often surf to other documents, seeking ones they can understand, even if they contain less useful information than the original document. The proposed work assists people in burrowing down into documents they are specifically interested in understanding, instead of having to browse off to other often tangential and potentially less reliable documents, in their quest for comprehensible information. Although this proposed technology was created to assist people in understanding or analyzing chemical documents, it can be of value to understanding documents in any technical or other specialized domain.Information and Communication Technologies have been changing how our society shares, communicates and manipulates information. The proposed technology "WikiHyperGlossary (WHG)" is an Information and Communication Technology that uses both social (web 2.0) and semantic (web 3.0) technologies to both increase the readability of digital printed documents, and connect them to new forms of information. The WHG allows the public to follow hyperlinks that are automatically added to words in a document of interest, based on whatever glossary the user chooses. As a semantic tool demonstrated in the chemical sciences, the WHG allows access to cheminformatic information like spectra and physical properties of compounds mentioned in an article, as well as the ability to edit those molecules and acquire information on the newly created molecules. This team plans to apply this architecture to other domains as well, as it seeks multiple commercialization opportunities.

识字的重要性，阅读和理解书面文件的能力在现代世界是如此之大，以至于联合国认为识字是一项基本人权。从法律的文件到教育材料再到文化遗产，理解书面文本中所包含的信息的重要性对现代社会至关重要。互联网为扫盲带来了新的挑战，人们可以很容易地访问他们缺乏特定领域背景知识的文件。因此，他们经常浏览其他文档，寻找他们可以理解的文档，即使它们包含的有用信息比原始文档少。拟议的工作帮助人们深入到他们特别感兴趣的文件中去理解，而不是在他们寻求可理解的信息时浏览其他通常无关紧要且可能不太可靠的文件。虽然这项技术是为了帮助人们理解或分析化学文件而创建的，但它对理解任何技术或其他专业领域的文件都有价值。信息和通信技术正在改变我们的社会如何共享，交流和处理信息。拟议的技术“WikiHyperGlossary（WHG）”是一种信息和通信技术，它使用社交（Web 2.0）和语义（Web 3.0）技术来提高数字印刷文档的可读性，并将其与新形式的信息联系起来。WHG允许公众根据用户选择的任何词汇表跟踪自动添加到感兴趣的文档中的单词的超链接。 作为化学科学中展示的语义工具，WHG允许访问文章中提到的化合物的光谱和物理性质等化学信息，以及编辑这些分子和获取新创建分子信息的能力。该团队计划将此架构应用于其他领域，因为它寻求多种商业化机会。