CPE/CSC 581-S05 Computer Support for Knowledge Management
CPE/CSC 581-S05 Computer Support for Knowledge Management
Project Topics
This document provides more details on possible topics for team projects.
You may also find useful information on the page for the
previous projects,
which contains links to 480, 481, and 580/581 projects from previous years.
Collaboration with Others
I'm in contact with other people who are currently involved in projects
related to our course topics.
Dr. Doug Cerf from the Business School has an ongoing project,
Charity Window,
that provides information about charities. He is interested in adding
an information gathering capability to the system that searches the Web
for information about charities in their system.
Further Project Ideas
And here are a few more ideas for project topics. I am listing more general
areas first, with a list of specific topics, and then more specific applications.
Knowledge Organization
Knowlets (Knowledge Components); similar to Learning Objects, but more general;
content + metadata + usage information + access methods
Usage Information for Document Categorization;
documents that are used together are more likely to be related
Knowledge Repositories
Project Repository; repository for Senior Projects, Master's theses, class projects;
similar to a data base, but with stronger functionality
for organization, retrieval, and presentation
Learning Objects;
constructing repositories of learning material from small building blocks
(see also CiteSeer search)
Knowledge Retrieval
N-grams for Information Retrieval;
sequences of n letters (n = 2, 3, 4 is typical) are used as the basis
for searching in text-based documents
Reasoning with Meta-Data
Web Ontology Language (OWL);
a language for reasoning about documents augmented with metadata
Description Logics for Reasoning about Metadata'
this variation of a logical calculus looks quite promising,
and is the basis for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) often used
with the Semantic Web
adds additional information to Web pages in the form of meta-tags.
This enables computers to perform more meaningful operations on Web pages.
For example, it allows the search for concepts based on ontologies,
rather than simple keywords.