On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0000, John Casey {DAICE} wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> Yes, I think the data mining techniques you suggest are going to be part of
> the solution but I must stress that the human element and 'community
> services' needs to be factored in. Data mining and AI approaches are likely
> to fall flat without it, so I think we need to think of the wider 'system'
> that techniques like data mining will sit inside.
>
> I would imagine the academic Information Retrieval community (there are some
> folks in Glasgow and Strathclyde who are into IR) would like this problem
> area - they maybe already into it for all I know. They would be
> useful to contact. It's not really my area (I'm more into education and
> instructional design and media design) but I attended one of their
> conferences in 2000 and it was very useful for me (and a bit mind blowing!).
> The web site for this is still up at:
> http://www.itim.mi.cnr.it/Eventi/essir2000/graph/index.htm
> This might give you an idea what they are into.
>
> The IR community has got a really interesting mix of computer science and
> library people. They have a SIG in the ACM.
>
> AS Steve Jeyes points out the IEEE are interested in this area as well and
> they are discussing it in the Learning Technology Committee according to
> their newsletter - so that might be a god area to check out.
Hi John,
Thanks for your pointers, very useful. I've made some contact with
people in IR and I'll report back if I manage anything interesting :)
cheers, Michael
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Michael Harris
Associate Lecturer Operations Manager &
School of Computer Science Courseware Co-ordinator
RMIT University CS&IT AVU Project
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