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Title:
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TOWARDS A HERMENEUTICAL APPROACH FOR CROSS-DOMAIN & CROSS-CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY ON THE WEB |
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Author(s):
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Chern Li Liew |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-02-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías and Miguel Baptista Nunes |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Cross-domain and cross-cultural knowledge discovery. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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165 |
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Last Page:
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169 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The profound changes introduced by the Internet have increased the concerns around knowledge organisation (KO) and knowledge discovery (KD). Quite suddenly, KO finds itself in the multiple crossroads of the overcrowded and distributed information landscape brought about by the Web. Information and knowledge is subjective and contextually biased. They are created within certain ideological, organisational and socio-cultural context. Enforcing competing contexts to accept a single representational vocabulary or universal classificatory structure as the medium for discourse across boundaries would be detrimental to the process of supporting cross-domain and cross-cultural information retrieval (IR) and KD in the networked environment. The exclusion or invisibility of certain communities of users or social worlds in the representational system essentially, a kind of institutional opacity rather than transparency, must hence, be avoided. In this paper, an argument that a hermeneutic approach provides a promising avenue for addressing some major limitations of existing KO tools in dealing with cross-domain and cross-cultural IR and KD on the Web is put forward. |
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