Many real-life scenarios require the joint analysis of general knowledge, which includes facts about the world, with individual knowledge, which relates to the opinions or habits of individuals. Recently developed crowd mining platforms, which were designed for such tasks, are a major step towards the solution. However, these platforms require users to specify their information needs in a forma...

This paper discusses how knowledge technologies can be utilized in creating help desk services on the semantic web. To ease the content indexer’s work, we propose semi-automatic semantic annotation of natural language text for annotating question-answer (QA) pairs, and case-based reasoning techniques for finding similar questions. To provide answers matching with the indexer’s and end-user’s in...

Querying complex graph databases such as knowledge graphs is a challenging task for non-professional users. Due to their complex schemas and variational information descriptions, it becomes very hard for users to formulate a query that can be properly processed by the existing systems. We argue that for a user-friendly graph query engine, it must support various kinds of transformations such as...

Information searching in practice seldom is an end in itself. In work, work task (WT) performance forms the context, which information searching should serve. Therefore information retrieval (IR) systems development/evaluation should take the WT context into account. The present paper analyzes how WT features: task complexity and task types, affect information searching in authentic work: the t...

The Acumence Manufacturing Business Intelligence Solution is a comprehensive business intelligence solution that supports realtime decision-making in high-volume manufacturing enterprises. It is uniquely architected for the real-time information technology needs and constantly changing operating environment of today’s manufacturers, so that operations and supply chain performance can be easily ...

English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) uses the results of needs analysis for curriculum development and materials production. ESAP courses should be based on students’ academic needs. Consequently, the present study investigated the English language needs of Iranian undergraduate students of Law. Participants included 218 undergraduate students, 33 graduate students, and 10 content teac...

Utilizing a computer to manage an enormous amount of information like lifelogs needs concrete digitized data models on information sources and their connections. For lifelogging, we need to model one’s life in a way that a computer can translate and manage information where many research efforts are still needed to close the gap between real life models and computerized data models. This work s...

objective: cancer creates a lot of stress and can significantly affect quality of life. the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stage of disease, illness perceptions, unmet needs and fatigue in predicting the quality of life of patients with cancer. method: the sample consisted of 120 hospitalized patients in tehran's shohada hospital in 2014 that was selected purposefully....