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Knowledge Architecture (Free and in Flow) in a Social Network
This event took place on Monday 03 September 2012 at 11:00

 
Izabel Meister Mackenzie University, So Paulo, Brazil


This presentation is an overview of my PhD research related to the OpenScout project and developed during my visiting research internship at KMi. It is a working in progress. It aims to discuss a virtual social network as a knowledge space. The research field focuses on  the Colearn community. It is a Portuguese language community (Brazil, Spain, Portugal and England) interested in educational technologies whose some members are participating in the OpenScout - Tool Library social network. The OpenScout - Tool Library, developed in KMi,  is a space for communities sharing stories and tools for adapting OER. My research focuses  on the process of sharing and acquiring knowledge through a network of practice.  



 
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Multimedia and Information Systems
Our research is centred around the theme of Multimedia Information Retrieval, ie, Video Search Engines, Image Databases, Spoken Document Retrieval, Music Retrieval, Query Languages and Query Mediation.

We focus on content-based information retrieval over a wide range of data spanning form unstructured text and unlabelled images over spoken documents and music to videos. This encompasses the modelling of human perception of relevance and similarity, the learning from user actions and the up-to-date presentation of information. Currently we are building a research version of an integrated multimedia information retrieval system MIR to be used as a research prototype. We aim for a system that understands the user's information need and successfully links it to the appropriate information sources, be it a report or a TV news clip. This work is guided by the vision that an automated knowledge extraction system ultimately empowers people making efficient use of information sources without the burden of filing data into specialised databases.

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