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An Open Source Environment to construct Information Services for Children
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An Open Source Environment to construct Information Services for Children
Motivation for the Project Inspired by art.17 of the convention on the Rights of the Child
Create a world-wide child-friendly Information Retrieval System
Assist children in learning, education and networking
Project Coordinator: University of Twente
PuppyIR is… Information Services• Retrieval for children• Opinion mining for children• Expert finding for children• Summarization for children• Multi-lingual / translation• Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures)• Aggregated documents• Blogsearch for children• Information filtering / Adult filtering• Question Answering for children
Interface• Childfriendly interface• Query handling and (re)formulation• Browsing • Interactive Media Design
Matching• Age classification• Language processing (age, complexity, query)• Topic classification• Modality• Reasoning / Children Semantics• Collaboration (group relevance decision)
Devices• Mobile devices• Location based services
Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012
PuppyIR is… Information Services• Retrieval for children• Opinion mining for children• Expert finding for children• Summarization for children• Multi-lingual / translation• Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures)• Aggregated documents• Blogsearch for children• Information filtering / Adult filtering• Question Answering for children
Interface• Childfriendly interface• Query handling and (re)formulation• Browsing • Interactive Media Design
Matching• Age classification• Language processing (age, complexity, query)• Topic classification• Modality• Reasoning / Children Semantics• Collaboration (group relevance decision)
Devices• Mobile devices• Location based services
Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012
PuppyIR is… Information Services• Retrieval for children• Opinion mining for children• Expert finding for children• Summarization for children• Multi-lingual / translation• Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures)• Aggregated documents• Blogsearch for children• Information filtering / Adult filtering• Question Answering for children
Interface• Childfriendly interface• Query handling and (re)formulation• Browsing • Interactive Media Design
Matching• Age classification• Language processing (age, complexity, query)• Topic classification• Modality• Reasoning / Children Semantics• Collaboration (group relevance decision)
Devices• Mobile devices• Location based services
Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012
PuppyIR is… Information Services• Retrieval for children• Opinion mining for children• Expert finding for children• Summarization for children• Multi-lingual / translation• Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures)• Aggregated documents• Blogsearch for children• Information filtering / Adult filtering• Question Answering for children
Interface• Childfriendly interface• Query handling and (re)formulation• Browsing • Interactive Media Design
Matching• Age classification• Language processing (age, complexity, query)• Topic classification• Modality• Reasoning / Children Semantics• Collaboration (group relevance decision)
Devices• Mobile devices• Location based services
Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012
PuppyIR is… Information Services• Retrieval for children• Opinion mining for children• Expert finding for children• Summarization for children• Multi-lingual / translation• Cross-media (which story to tell - by video, text, or pictures)• Aggregated documents• Blogsearch for children• Information filtering / Adult filtering• Question Answering for children
Interface• Childfriendly interface• Query handling and (re)formulation• Browsing • Interactive Media Design
Matching• Age classification• Language processing (age, complexity, query)• Topic classification• Modality• Reasoning / Children Semantics• Collaboration (group relevance decision)
Devices• Mobile devices• Location based services
Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/03/2012
Children are very creative and open-minded
Children are highly sensitive to emotion
Children express their information needs
differently from adults
Children are particularly exposed to unsolicited
material
Information Services for use by children
They need information services designed
specifically for them! Delft Technical University University of Strathclyde University of Glasgow Atos Origin
PuppyIR will construct an open source framework for rapid development of information services
Open Source IR
Child-
focused
Child-
friendlyCatholic University of Leuven EMMA Kinderzeikenhuis AMC University of Twente
Contacts for PuppyIR
Franciska de Jong (project coordinator)Universiteit TwentePhone: +31 53 4894193Email: [email protected]
http://www.puppyir.eu
Paul MooreAtos Research & Innovation Phone: +34 91 214 5552Email: [email protected]
