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Context-Aware Information Retrieval for Enhanced Situation Awareness

Context-Aware Information Retrieval for Enhanced Situation Awareness
Context-Aware Information Retrieval for Enhanced Situation Awareness
In the coalition forces, users are increasingly challenged with the issues of information overload and correlation of information from heterogeneous sources. Users might need different pieces of information, ranging from information about a single building, to the resolution strategy of a global conflict. Sometimes, the time, location and past history of information access can also shape the information needs of users. Information systems need to help users pull together data from disparate sources according to their expressed needs (as represented by system queries), as well as less specific criteria. Information consumers have varying roles, tasks/missions, goals and agendas, knowledge and background, and personal preferences. These factors can be used to shape both the execution of user queries and the form in which retrieved information is packaged. However, full automation of this daunting information aggregation and customization task is not possible with existing approaches. In this paper we present an infrastructure for context-aware information retrieval to enhance situation awareness. The infrastructure provides each user with a customized, mission-oriented system that gives access to the right information from heterogeneous sources in the context of a particular task, plan and/or mission. The approach lays on five intertwined fundamental concepts, namely Workflow, Context, Ontology, Profile and Information Aggregation. The exploitation of this knowledge, using appropriate domain ontologies, will make it feasible to provide contextual assistance in various ways to the work performed according to a user’s taskrelevant information requirements. This paper formalizes these concepts and their interrelationships.
Situation Awareness, Semantic Technologies, Ontologies
Bahrami, Ali
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Yuan, Jun
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Smart, Paul R
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Shadbolt, Nigel R
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Shadbolt, Nigel R
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Bahrami, Ali, Yuan, Jun, Smart, Paul R and Shadbolt, Nigel R (2007) Context-Aware Information Retrieval for Enhanced Situation Awareness. Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Orlando, Florida, United States. 29 - 31 Oct 2007.

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Abstract

In the coalition forces, users are increasingly challenged with the issues of information overload and correlation of information from heterogeneous sources. Users might need different pieces of information, ranging from information about a single building, to the resolution strategy of a global conflict. Sometimes, the time, location and past history of information access can also shape the information needs of users. Information systems need to help users pull together data from disparate sources according to their expressed needs (as represented by system queries), as well as less specific criteria. Information consumers have varying roles, tasks/missions, goals and agendas, knowledge and background, and personal preferences. These factors can be used to shape both the execution of user queries and the form in which retrieved information is packaged. However, full automation of this daunting information aggregation and customization task is not possible with existing approaches. In this paper we present an infrastructure for context-aware information retrieval to enhance situation awareness. The infrastructure provides each user with a customized, mission-oriented system that gives access to the right information from heterogeneous sources in the context of a particular task, plan and/or mission. The approach lays on five intertwined fundamental concepts, namely Workflow, Context, Ontology, Profile and Information Aggregation. The exploitation of this knowledge, using appropriate domain ontologies, will make it feasible to provide contextual assistance in various ways to the work performed according to a user’s taskrelevant information requirements. This paper formalizes these concepts and their interrelationships.

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Published date: 2007
Additional Information: Event Dates: 29-31 October 2007
Venue - Dates: Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Orlando, Florida, United States, 2007-10-29 - 2007-10-31
Keywords: Situation Awareness, Semantic Technologies, Ontologies
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 264737
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264737
PURE UUID: 1e538cd2-e899-413e-aead-d0c988ca3ea5
ORCID for Paul R Smart: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-5307

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Date deposited: 24 Oct 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:15

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Author: Ali Bahrami
Author: Jun Yuan
Author: Paul R Smart ORCID iD
Author: Nigel R Shadbolt

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