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Community Information Service
-- CS598CXZ IR Application Panels
Xu Ling
April. 26, 2005
Existing Solutions
 Examples:
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BBS
Newsgroup
DBLP for database community
MEDLINE for biomedicine community
 Simple Web search/query services are not
enough !!!
What’s More DBLP Can Have?
 Seeing a new paper from SIGMOD 2005:
RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Topk Queries
We might want to know
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What’s the related topics?
Who else are working on the similar topic?
What’s the evolution trend of this topic?
More…
 Conference committee chair wants to know
the coauthor relationships to assign reviewers
for a submitted paper.
 A DB beginner wants to have a big picture a
special topic.
 People outside the community might be
interested in the research themes of a group,
e.g., UIUC’s DIAS, and its trend.
What’s More MEDLINE Can
Have?
 Regulation network
 Protein-protein interaction network
 Gene summary
 Gene/protein function annotation
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All About IR ?!
 Common characteristics
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Information sources: literature
Vast amount of data
Complicated relationship hidden inside and
between them
Potential huge impact on real life
Where to Spend the $10M ?
IR, of course!
Thanks