SIG CON 2002

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SIG CON 2002

• Just In Time

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Tonights Presentations

• Just in Time Methods New Applications A Review
  of the Literature H.A.H. team
• Famous First Words D. r. Shaw
• Salary Survey Trends T. Terrell and V. Gregory

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Tonights Presentations, cont.

• Query Prediction Mz. Leo and Dr. Predictor
• New Frontiers in Citation Counting H.A.H. Team
• Bonus paper Just in Time Research Results

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Just in Time Methods New Applications

• A Review of the Literature

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Model for Diffusion of Innovation

• Research Question How has the Just in Time
  methodology, initially developed for use in the
  manufacturing industry and applied to production
  and warehousing, been adapted and adopted in
  other contexts?

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Methodology

• Search as many (non-business) online databases as
  possible for this concept
• Add up the results
• Compare and contrast the research published in
  different fields
• Make some vague generalizations

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Results

• Not a lot to say in fact, this just didnt work
• In a majority of the databases searched, the
  words just and in are stopwords, which made
  this work virtually impossible

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Enough Talk

• Lets do it!

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Just in Time Research

• Gather data using the sessions audience as
  experts in the field
• Tabulate during the presentations
• Present results at the end of the session

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Abstract Generation Hypothesis

• Given
• A set of sentences that are representative of
  generic abstract text and
• Subject-specific word lists,
• We can create readable, if not meaningful,
  abstracts in a process that we call

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• Multidimensional Abstraction of Data into
  Linguistically Information-poor BullShit
• Or

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• Multidimensional
• Abstraction of
• Data into
• Linguistically
• Information-poor
• Bull
• Shit

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State of the Research

• Generic abstract text developed
• Model sentences
• Word lists generated and tested in a number of
  fields

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Tonights Task

• We will be creating word lists for the discipline
  of information science and technology
• Working with the leading experts in the field
  YOU!
• Results to be presented at the end of tonights
  session

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Color Coding

• Blue Nouns
• Green Adjectives
• Yellow Verbs
• Pink Adverbs
• Write a few representative words for each
  category on the index cards at your table