5th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing

Research Article

Information retrieval on mind maps - what could it be good for?

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8298 ,
        author={J\o{}ran Beel and Bela Gipp and Jan-Olaf Stiller},
        title={Information retrieval on mind maps - what could it be good for?},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2009},
        month={12},
        keywords={data mining information retrieval mind maps expert seach document clustering document classification},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8298 }
    }
    
  • Jöran Beel
    Bela Gipp
    Jan-Olaf Stiller
    Year: 2009
    Information retrieval on mind maps - what could it be good for?
    COLLABORATECOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8298
Jöran Beel1,*, Bela Gipp1,*, Jan-Olaf Stiller2,*
  • 1: Otto-von-Guericke University, Computer Science/ITI/VLBA-Lab, Magdeburg, Germany, SciPlore.org
  • 2: University of Wolfenbüttel, Karl Scharfenberg Faculty, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, SciPlore.org
*Contact email: beel@sciplore.org, gipp@sciplore.org, stiller@sciplore.org

Abstract

Mind maps are used by millions of people. In this paper we present how information retrieval on mind maps could be used to enhance expert search, document summarization, keyword based search engines, document recommender systems and determining word relatedness. For instance, words in a mind map could be used for creating a skill profile of the mind maps' author and hence enhance expert search. This paper is a research-in-progress paper which means no research results are presented but only ideas.