This paper focuses on examples of educational tools concerning the learning of chemistry for engineering students through different daily life cases. These tools were developed during the past few years for enhancing the active role of students. They refer to cases about mineral water, medicaments, dentifrices and informative panels about solar power, where an adequate quantitative treatment th...

The pointwise mutual information quantifies the mutual information between events x and y from random variable X and Y . This article considers the pointwise mutual information in a directed sense, examining precisely how an event y provides information about x via probability mass exclusions. Two distinct types of exclusions are identified—namely informative and misinformative exclusions. Then...

The work of corporate finance professionals is information intensive. In spite of that the practices and motivations of their information preferences have been researched very little. The present study investigates perceived success and how it is related to corporate finance professionals' information source use behaviour based on a web survey of 92 Finnish corporate finance professionals. The ...

In this paper, we describe the participation of the Information Management Systems (IMS) group at CLEF eHealth 2017 Task 2. This task focuses on the problem of systematic reviews, that is articles that summarise all evidence that is published regarding a certain medical topic. This task, known in Information Retrieval as the total recall problem, requires long and tedious search sessions by exp...

We report results of a study that involved the creation of knowledge bases of concepts from large, operational textual databases. Two East-bloc computing knowledge bases, both based on a semantic network structure, were created automatically using two statistical algorithms. With the help of four East-bloc computing experts, we evaluated the two knowledge bases in detail in a concept-associatio...