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Reductionism and library and information science philosophy
Bonna JonesThe purpose of this article is to consider the meaning of “reductionism” within the context of renewed efforts to make library and information science philosophy.
Exploring fact‐focused relevance and novelty detection
Jahna Otterbacher, Dragomir RadevAutomated sentence‐level relevance and novelty detection would be of direct benefit to many information retrieval systems. However, the low level of agreement between human judges…
An epistemological critique of gap theory based library assessment: the case of SERVQUAL
Liangzhi Yu, Qiulan Hong, Song Gu, Yazun WangThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to investigate the epistemological underpinning of SERVQUAL and its limitations; and second, to propose ways to enhance the utility of…
Finding communities: alternative viewpoints through weblogs and tagging
Kimberly ChopinThis paper aims to discuss and test the claim that user‐based tagging allows for access to a wider variety of viewpoints than is found using other forms of online searching.
Beyond dictionaries: Understanding information behavior of professional translators
Marilyn Domas White, Miriam Matteson, Eileen G. AbelsThis paper characterizes translation as a task and aims to identify how it influences professional translators' information needs and use of resources to meet those needs.
Syntagmatic relationships and indexing consistency on a larger scale
Hope A. Olson, Dietmar WolframThe purpose of this article is to examine interindexer consistency on a larger scale than other studies have done to determine if group consensus is reached by larger numbers of…
Gender differences in the online reading environment
Ziming Liu, Xiaobin HuangThe purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in the online reading environment.
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