READIT - 2009 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Proceedings of READIT-2009, Kalpakkam - 603 102, 29-30 Dec 2009
i) Perspectives in Materials Characterization (2009) by G.Amarendra, Baldev
Raj and M.H. Manghnani(Eds); and
ii) Advances in Materials Characterization (2007).
Though the two titles are similar approximately, they cover different topics and each one of
the above two books provide many unique concepts covering the techniques of Materials
Characterization which need appropriate methods of indexing. [9]
WEB SEMANTICS
Semantic Web is more a social rather than a technological problem. We need to help the process
of adding semantics by:
i) by extracting appropriate concepts from the web content;
ii) by extracting relevant terms from the link structure; and
iii) by identifying relevant and related concepts from the users’ queries [6].
WEB INFORMATION INTERACTION
Current web technology comes up short when it comes to supporting the needs of the
collaborative and interdisciplinary “e-Science”. The web of links between documents, databases
and programs, along with definitions for the concepts/terms can provide a new level of
interaction among scientific communities [7]. Facet analysis, hence, can be used to effectively
facilitate the information retrieval interaction rather than maximizing the matching process for
the identification of “relevant” document which cannot work in the WWW environment in the
same way as it might in the test collection environment.
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9. Ranjan, R. Book Review for the book “ Perspectives in materials characterization by G.
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