Social Work Literature Searching

Collaborative Searching: Social Searching, Together

Information Retrieval (IR) is typically an individual pursuit where an individual searcher will engage with a search system, working alone, until their information need is satisfied. Yet in the real world there are many scenarios, both work-related and related to leisure, entertainment or hobbies, where we want to search as part of a team, maybe even a group of only two people. Collaborative In...

Searching the medical literature.

Searching the medical literature.

Medical literature searches have become more complex because of the increasing amount of published material and the multiple available databases indexing those publications. Although newly graduated physicians may have received some training in literature searching as part of a medical school curriculum, most clinicians have received no formal training in this skill. In today's world of evidenc...

Restorative Justice: A Systematic Review of the Social Work Literature

Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work’s ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also r...

Searching XML Documents - Preliminary Work

Structured document retrieval aims at exploiting the structure together with the content of documents to improve retrieval results. Several aspects of traditional information retrieval applied on flat documents have to be reconsidered. These include in particular, document representation, storage, indexing, retrieval, and ranking. This paper outlines the architecture of our system and the adapt...