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Distributed systems and applications of information filtering and retrieval : DART 2012 revised and invited papers
Lai C., Giuliani A., Semeraro G., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2013. 200 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642406-20-1)
Date Reviewed: Aug 29 2014

This book is a collection of eight research papers that have been revised and extended from the original invited presentations at the special session on Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications (DART 2012) of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2012). According to the editors, they worked closely with the authors of the papers and the reviewers to come up with each of the eight chapters contained in this book.

The authors, comprising both practitioners and researchers, propose new and intelligent techniques and demonstrate their use in the real world. Each chapter includes detailed references and discusses the state of the art of specific topics. The results cover a number of topics, including multi-agent systems, natural language processing, automatic advertisement, customer interaction analytics, and opinion mining.

Chapter 1, “Context-Aware Based Quality of Life Telemonitoring,” addresses the authors’ experience with the BackHome project, in which disabled people’s activities were monitored and analyzed to provide a framework to extract important information about the quality of life of the subjects. There are 50 references at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 2, “Predicate Argument Structures for Information Extraction from Dependency Representations: Null Elements Are Missing,” deals with the very specialized topic of null elements in dependency structures related to language analysis (in this case, the use of a treebank). The outputs of the analyses are contained in two online papers, which are included in the 29 references at the end.

In chapter 3,” An Opinion Mining Model for Generic Domains,” the authors present “an opinion mining model to analyze and summarize reviews concerning several categories of products and services.” The authors utilize FreeWordNet to perform a model analysis of the reviews captured from user inputs and display them in a visual presentation. Twenty references are included.

Chapter 4, “Facilitating Collaboration and Information Retrieval: Collaborative Traces Based SWOT Analysis and Implications,” proposes the concept of collaborative trace (CT), which links the various participants in collaborative processes. CT can then be analyzed and put into a proper framework to provide important information about the collaboration. There are 33 references at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 5, “An Approach for Characterizing Group-Based Interactive Environments,” deals with a methodology to characterize interactions in social networks such as Facebook. The approach uses a set of indicators in the management of a group’s life cycle. It is supported by a Facebook application, Group Information Aggregator (GIA). This application can be used to evaluate, and come up with some conclusions about, user behavior and group activity. There are 34 references.

Chapter 6, “A Geometric Algebra Based Distributional Model to Encode Sentences Semantics,” describes a sub-symbolic methodology for sentence encoding. The authors use rotor operators for latent semantic analysis (LSA). They show that this approach is efficient and outperforms additive and multiplicative operators. There are 25 references in this chapter.

Chapter 7, “Using an Ontology for Multimedia Content Semantics,” discusses “user-generated content (UGC) management, especially for multimedia contents (and their metadata).” An experimental platform was developed with an ontology that includes georeferencing and other standardized categories, which allow users to have a solid starting ground for adding their own content. There are 26 references.

Chapter 8, “Behavioral Aspects in the Interaction Between Wikipedia and Its Users,” shows “the habits of users when they surf the Wikipedia portal.” Two types of interactions are analyzed: visits and contributions. The usage of different language versions, such as English and Spanish, is also included in the results. There are 17 references.

Since this is a very diverse set of papers, readers should concentrate on those topics they are interested in and skip the rest. For practitioners, I recommend reading chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5 for more practical applications.

Reviewer:  E. Y. Lee Review #: CR142677 (1412-1022)
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