Information Access

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Information Access

• Douglas W. Oard
• College of Information Studies and
• Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

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Diversity of Users
2000
2005
English
English
Chinese
Source Global Reach
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Diversity of Content

• Electronic text
• Web pages, e-books, email, legal cases,
• Scanned documents
• Books, handwritten manuscripts, archives,
• Audio
• News broadcasts, oral history interviews, music,
  
• Video
• Television, movies, surveillance video,

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Supporting the Search Process
Source Selection
Choose
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Information Filtering
New Documents
Recommendation
Matching
Rating
Observation
User Profile
Explicit Feedback
Implicit Feedback
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A Taste of Our Research

• Digital library interfaces for children
• Access to news audio
• Digital book readers for children
• Exploring foreign-language collections