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You Can Diy (Do It Yourself), Nancy Turner Oct 2010

You Can Diy (Do It Yourself), Nancy Turner

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

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The Brief Wondrous Life Of The Syracuse Kindle, Melinda Dermody, Suzanne Preate, Nancy Turner, Scott Warren Jun 2010

The Brief Wondrous Life Of The Syracuse Kindle, Melinda Dermody, Suzanne Preate, Nancy Turner, Scott Warren

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

In the fall 2009 semester, the Syracuse University Library launched a pilot program to test two Kindle DX e-book readers as content delivery devices. The pilot objectives included exploring additional options for access to curricular resources that are cost-prohibitive and frequently requested by library users, testing a new technology, i.e., Kindle DX, for delivery of ebooks, gauging user reactions to e-book readers, and using Kindle statistics and user feedback to develop or modify services and technologies. Through the pilot, the Library gained practical experience with a new technology and attempted to determine whether an e-book reader loan program would interest …


Patron-Driven Acquisition: Getting In The Game, Linette Koren, Roman Koshykar Jan 2010

Patron-Driven Acquisition: Getting In The Game, Linette Koren, Roman Koshykar

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

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Data Mining, Data Fusion, And Libraries, Katherine Chiang Jan 2010

Data Mining, Data Fusion, And Libraries, Katherine Chiang

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

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Questions To Be Asked & Answered On Nlp’S Role In Improving Semantic Annotation For Ir, Elizabeth D. Liddy Jan 2010

Questions To Be Asked & Answered On Nlp’S Role In Improving Semantic Annotation For Ir, Elizabeth D. Liddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

What was early information retrieval like? (before it was called search!)

How was NLP first applied to the task?

Which levels of language analysis were utilized?

Which were successful? Which were not?

Why were other levels not incorporated ?

Do we now see that the higher levels can and need to be included?

If they are, how might they change how we do IR, as well as what tasks we use it for?