Breakout Session Reports for 8th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
Dear Workshop Participants,
I know have all the reports from the break-out sessions which I'm
forwarding to you as promissed.
We look forward to your participation in the 9th CR workshop next year.
The "Call for Papers" for next year's workshop will come out sometime in
the Winter quarter. So, start thinking for submitting a paper.
Thank you again for your participation in the workshop.
Cheers,
Efthimis
8th CR workshop chair
-------------------------------------------------------------
Breakout-session group 1
CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURES
Barbara Kwasnik
Classification structures are an abstract and formal representation of
knowledge and also serve as a communication tool to reveal that knowledge
for use. We identified the following general areas of interest
1. The STRUCTURE (as well as the content) of a classification should be
designed with the users in mind. E.g., some users have difficulty
interpreting or understanding classification hierarchies.
2. What is useful for representation?
3. A complicating factor: interdisciplinary studies often need to
represent different knowledge structures (e.g., polydimensionality).
4. Research needed not only in polydimensionality, but also in linking
diverse structures (e.g., hierarchies to clusters).
5. Need to take into account the distinction between semantic structures
("inherent") vs. syntagmatic/perceived structures (contextual/personal).
6. Do we need a different sort of classification structure for finding and
identifying vs. making associations.
7. We need to develop the notion of "moving a structure around" so it can
be seen from different aspects. This would include the general problem of
finding structures to represent facetted classification.
8. Adaptive classification: Structures that shift/change as a response to
interaction with users and changing contexts.
------------------------------------------------------------
Breakout-session group 2:
Research issues in social aspects of classification
Discussion leader: Hanne Albrechtsen
Rapporteurs: Clare Beghtol & Hanne Albrechtsen
Participants' research interests in classification:
Hope Olson:
Mapping feminist vocabulary towards the DDC. Poststructuralist theory
Giles Martin:
Users of information systems
Clare Beghtol:
Classification theory; the social vs. individual aspects of knowledge
organization
Elin Jacob:
Linguistic and cultural aspects; Vygotsky's theory of concept and language
development; Bakhtin's philosophy of language
Joan Mitchell:
Universal schemes as switching facilities between different schemes.
Multiple views in classification schemes
Jens-Erik Mai:
Philosophy of language (Wittgenstein); Semiotics (C.S. Peirce)
Alenka Sauperl:
Classification in online systems; cultural aspects of classification schemes
Hanne Albrechtsen:
Cultural and domain-specific aspects of classification schemes; applying
sociology of science to classification research; Star's concept of boundary
objects
Conclusion/ Clare Beghtol & Hanne Albrechtsen
Framework for designing classification research questions:
General knowledge vs domain knowledge
Users vs systems
Global vs local
Static vs Dynamic
Past vs Present
Sociocultural vs Individual
Structure vs Chaos
Sociological vs Automation
(content) (carrier)
1. Create relationships between extremes
2. How to link different systems through relationships
1997-11-26 Hanne Albrechtsen
-------------------------------------------------------------
Breakout-session group 3:
CHALLENGES IN IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Corinne Jorgensen
There are a wide range of image attributes:
CONCRETE OBJECTS
Body Part
Clothing
Object
Text
PEOPLE
People
PEOPLE ATTRIBUTES
Emotion
Relationship
Social Status
ART HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Artist
Format
Medium
Representation
Style
Type
Technique
Time Reference
COLOR
Color
Color Value
VISUAL ELEMENTS
Composition
Focal Point
Motion
Orientation
Perspective
Shape
Texture
Visual Component
LOCATION
Location - General
Location - Specific
DESCRIPTION
Description
Number
ABSTRACT CONCEPTS
Abstract
Atmosphere
State
Symbolic Aspect
Theme
CONTENT/STORY
Activity
Category
Event
Setting
Time Aspect
VIEWER RESPONSE
Conjecture
Personal Reaction
Uncertainty
EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIP
Comparison
Reference
Similarity
******
Retrieval of text and images - a comparitive framework
TEXT IMAGES
Keyword SYNTAX Color Visual Perception
Texture
Shape
Stat. SEMANTICS Objects Recognition
Methods People
Location
Concept- PRAGMATICS Story Understanding
based Abstract
People attributes
Art Hist. reference
External reference
-------------------------------------------------------------
Breakout-session group 4:
Problems and prospects in thesaurus construction
Dagobert Soergel
1. Thesaurus use in relation to structure
Interfaces
Behind the scenes use of thesauri to improve retrieval
User learning from thesaurus structure
Which thesaurus elements influences success
2. Thesaurus structure and content
Hierarchy?
Types of relations. Need richer set of relationships
Multilingual thesauri
Cross-disciplinary thesauri
3. Evaluation
4. Thesaurus construction
Support for the construction of large scale thesauri - automated
Correlating existing thesauri
Manual vs statistical methods
Linguistic/semantic /analysis
Knowledge-based methods
Dynamic thesaurus construction and update
User input
Query analysis
-------------------------------------------------------------
Breakout-session group 5:
Exploring Bibliographic Classifications in New Environments
Allyson Carlyle
A major feature of our new environments is that they are networked.
A summary of issues includes:
* multidisciplinary environments
* multilingual environments
* database and vocabulary merging
* narrow focus environments vs. broad focus environments
* non-text collections
* evaluation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
University of Washington tel-office: 206-616-6077
Box 352930 tel-school: 206-543-1794
Seattle, WA 98195-2930 fax. 206-616-3152
email: efthimis@u.washington.edu
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Top of Page
| Back to SIG/CR Home Page | Send Questions or Comments.
Ray Schwartz / schwartz@panix.com
Last Updated on Saturday, 19-Nov-2005 19:32:04 EST
URL: http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGCR/breakout.shtml