Research Areas

Subdomain vocabularies

Natural language
processing
Intelligent EVM agent

Access to numeric
databases

Evaluation methods

Cross-language retrieval

Grant Supported
Research

DARPA Projects
   Unfamiliar Metadata

   TIDES Translingual

IMLS Project

   Seamless

    
Prototypes

Papers




Metadata Research Program

Entry Vocabulary Module Prototypes   (Page 1 of 2)
A demonstration of the "seamless library" gateway to information databases project. Experience improved access to unfamiliar metadata, such as that used by specialized text and numeric databases, by exploring the eight prototype Entry Vocabulary Modules (EVMs) that follow.

Multilingual EVMs (1-2)

Use Entry Vocabulary Modules #1 and #2 to:

  Convert a multilingual, natural language query to Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH)  About LCSH  

  Convert an LCSH (in English) to a multilingual list of closely related terms

  Supply (and/or augment) search queries; View the hierarchical structure of LC subject headings related to user-selected term.

1.   Search for an English language LC subject heading

  Enter a search query in any Roman-alphabet language

  

   Limit results to top:
 
2.   Search for terms (multilingual) associated with a one-word Library of Congress subject heading
   Enter a Library of Congress (English language) subject heading:
   (e.g. islamic fundamentalism)


   Limit results to top:

More prototype EVMs (3 - 8)