Why generate webpages automatically?

In a research organisation such as ours, individual researchers take responsibility for maintaining their own webpages. In addition, researchers are organised into research groups, each of which maintains its own webpage. In this framework, information can get out of date. Most researchers keep their publications lists up-to-date. However, research summaries and the like are updated less often, on individual researcher homepages and on group homepages. Thus reading research profiles does not always give an accurate overview of what is currently being worked on.

Further, the tree structure (lab > research groups > researchers) make browsing difficult. As each researcher's webpage is maintained indivdually, links between researchers are often not obvious. A surfer then needs to repeatedly move up and down the tree hierarchy to browse the profiles of different researchers.

In these automatically generated pages, content is extracted from publication titles, and hence stays up-to-date. Information is formatted in a way that facilitates browsing. The left of the screen contains links to researchers of the same group and the middle contains a research profile. In addition, the right of the screen contains a list of recommendations: other researchers with similar research interests. This allows for browsing the website as a graph, without having to repeatedly move up and down the tree hierarchy.

How these webpages are generated

• S. Teufel. 2007. An Overview of evaluation methods in TREC Ad-hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering. In Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems. L. Dybkjaer, H. Hemsen, W. Minker (Eds.) Springer, Dordrecht (The Netherlands).

• ``An overview of evaluation methods in TREC ad-hoc information retrieval and TREC question answering''
1. evaluation methods
2. evaluation methods in TREC ad-hoc information retrieval
3. TREC ad-hoc information retrieval
4. TREC question answering
5. information retrieval

Individual researcher pages

• automatic classification for information retrieval, intelligent automatic information retrieval, information retrieval test collections, information retrieval system, automatic classification, semantic classification, intelligent retrieval, information retrieval, information science, retrieval system, test collections, mail retrieval, trec ad-hoc information retrieval

A representative phrase is selected from each cluster ('information retrieval' from the cluster above) and this phrase is associated with all the publication dates of papers the terms in the cluster come from . These extracted key-phrases are eumerated as lists in five year intervals; for example:

• 2000--2004: 'human iris patterns'; 'iris recognition'; 'visual phase information'; 'complex-valued wavelets for stochastic pattern recognition'; 'biometric decision landscapes'; 'gabor wavelets'; 'brain theory'; 'epigenetic randomness'; 'statistical richness'; 'statistical principles'; 'brain metaphor'; 'statistical pattern recognition';

Recommendations (related people)

Research Group Pages

• cognitive dimensions'; 'domestic appliances'; 'motion captured dance'; 'solid diagrams'; 'accessible technology'; 'physical world'; 'visual programming'; 'end-user software engineering'; 'invented traditions'; 'biomechanically-based spinal model'; 'tangible user interfaces';
  Alan Blackwell; Cecily Morrison; Darren Edge; Lorisa Dubuc; Luke Church;
  
  'histogram warping'; 'non-uniform b-spline subdivision'; 'stylised rendering'; 'multiresolution image representation'; 'human behaviour'; 'multi-view autostereoscopic'; 'subdivision schemes'; 'minimising gaussian curvature variation near extraordinary vertices'; 'sampled cp surfaces'; 'bounded curvature variants';
  Neil Dodgson; Thomas Cashman; Ursula Augsdorfer;
  
  'text for multiprojector tiled displays'; 'tabletop interface'; 'high-resolution tabletop applications'; 'distributed tabletops'; 'remote review meetings'; 'rapid prototyping';
  Peter Robinson; Philip Tuddenham;
  
  'students with visual disabilities using high-resolution photography'; 'assistive tool'; 'lecture adaptation'; 'photonote evaluation'; 'time-lapse photography';
  Gregory Hughes; Peter Robinson;