I-Corps: WikiHyperGlossary - an information literacy technology

识字的重要性，即阅读和理解书面文件的能力，在现代世界是如此重要，以至于联合国认为识字是一项基本人权。从法律文件到教育材料到文化遗产，理解书面文本中包含的信息的重要性对现代社会至关重要。互联网给读写能力带来了新的挑战，人们可以很容易地访问他们缺乏特定领域背景来理解的文档。因此，他们经常浏览其他文档，寻找他们可以理解的文档，即使它们包含的信息不如原始文档有用。这项提议的工作可以帮助人们深入研究他们特别感兴趣的文档，而不是在寻找可理解的信息时，浏览其他通常无关紧要且可能不太可靠的文档。虽然这个建议的技术是为了帮助人们理解或分析化学文档而创建的，但它对于理解任何技术或其他专门领域的文档都是有价值的。信息和通信技术已经改变了我们社会分享、交流和操纵信息的方式。提出的“WikiHyperGlossary （WHG）”技术是一种信息和通信技术，它使用社交（web 2.0）和语义（web 3.0）技术来增加数字印刷文档的可读性，并将它们与新形式的信息连接起来。WHG允许公众跟踪超链接，这些超链接基于用户选择的术语表自动添加到感兴趣的文档中的单词中。作为化学科学中的语义工具，WHG允许访问化学信息学信息，如文章中提到的化合物的光谱和物理性质，以及编辑这些分子和获取新创建分子的信息的能力。该团队还计划将该体系结构应用于其他领域，因为它正在寻求多种商业化机会。

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.