Feminist organization theories develop knowledge about how organizations and processes of organizing shape are shaped by gender, in intersection with race, class other forms social inequality. The politics within management studies tend to marginalize silence feminist theorizing on organizations, so the field misses out interdisciplinary, sophisticated conceptualizations reflexive modes situate...

Information retrieval is the process of searching for relevant documents that satisfy a user’s information need (usually in the form of queries). Some of its successful applications include library catalogue search, medical record retrieval, and Internet search engines (e.g., Google). As the exponential growth of web pages and online documents continues, there is an increasing need for retrieva...

As Steedman (1990, 248) puts it “[...] even the most basic gapped sentence like Fred ate bread, and Harry, bananas is only really felicitous in contexts which support (or accommodate) the presupposition that the topic under discussion is Who ate what?.” In this paper, I want to argue that Steedman’s remark hits the spot: given an adequate analysis of short answers, this analyis can be straightf...

This paper describes Question Waves, an algorithm that can be applied to social search protocols, such as Asknext or Sixearch. In this model, the queries are propagated through the social network, with propagation being faster through more trustable acquaintances. Question Waves uses local information to make decisions and obtain an answer ranking. With Question Waves, the answers that arrive f...

In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has limited knowledge about the data, often the user feels “left in the dark” when issuing queries, and has to use a try-and-see approach for finding information. In this paper, we study fuzzy type-ahead search in XML data, a...

In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has limited knowledge about the data, often the user feels “left in the dark” when issuing queries, and has to use a try-and-see approach for finding information. In this paper, we study fuzzy type-ahead search in XML data, a...

Recent advances in health and life sciences have led to generation of a large amount of data. To facilitate access to its desired parts, such a big mass of data has been represented in structured forms, like biomedical ontologies. On the other hand, representing ontologies in a formal language, constructing them independently from each other and storing them at different locations have brought ...

Three approaches to content-and-structure XML retrieval are analysed in this paper: first by using Zettair, a fulltext information retrieval system; second by using eXist, a native XML database, and third by using a hybrid XML retrieval system that uses eXist to produce the final answers from likely relevant articles retrieved by Zettair. INEX 2003 content-and-structure topics can be classified...

Recent advances in health and life sciences have led to generation of a large amount of data. To facilitate access to its desired parts, such a big mass of data has been represented in structured forms, like biomedical ontologies. On the other hand, representing ontologies in a formal language, constructing them independently from each other and storing them at different locations have brought ...