Information retrieval on mind maps – what could it be good for?
Information retrieval on mind maps what could it be good for? JӃran Beel Bela Gipp Jan-Olaf Stiller Otto-von-Guericke University Otto-von-Guericke University University of Wolfenbփttel Computer Science/ITI/VLBA-Lab Computer Science/ITI/VLBA-Lab Karl Scharfenberg Faculty Magdeburg, Germany Magdeburg, Germany Wolfenb܃ttel, Germany SciPlore.org SciPlore.org SciPlore.org beel@sciplore.org gipp@sciplore.org stiller@sciplore.org Abstractܢ Mind maps are used by millions of people. In this II. EXPERT SEARCH paper we present how information retrieval on mind maps could be used to enhance expert search, document summarization, Finding the right experts in a big company is a difficult keyword based search engines, document recommender systems endeavor. In first attempts, databases were used and employees and determining word relatedness. For instance, words in a mind could enter their skills manually [10, 11]. In the last decade map could be used for creating a skill profile of the mind maps’ muc