On an organizing knowledge: a visualization of coordination science in terms of terminology

Author

Ishida, Kazunari ; Ohta, Toshizumi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Matsue Coll. of Technol., Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

206

Abstract

We propose a method for identifying the central papers in an emerging academic discipline by formulating a similarity function based on terminology. Identifying the most important papers is useful for understanding the new discipline quickly. From our previous research, we are convinced that being able to visualize terminology drawn from papers with different academic backgrounds is an effective method for clarifying similar and dissimilar meanings in the terminology used in the new discipline. However, using visualization to clarify meaning is slightly subjective and time consuming. By employing the similarity function, we were able to identify similar terms, which papers were central to a new discipline we examined, and clarify the relations between papers without excessive effort

Keywords

Internet; classification; nomenclature; Internet; classification; coordination science; data visualization; similar term identification; similarity function; terminology; Collaborative work; Data mining; Educational institutions; Frequency; Information retrieval; Information systems; Organizing; Terminology; Uniform resource locators; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812401

Filename

812401