External Concept Support for Group Support Systems Through Web Mining

被引:7
作者
Li, Jia [1 ]
Zhang, Pengzhu [1 ]
Cao, Jinwei [2 ]
机构
[1] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, Shanghai 200052, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Delaware, Dept Accounting & Management Informat Syst, Newark, DE 19711 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | 2009年 / 60卷 / 05期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
DECISION-MAKING; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL; COOCCURRENCE DATA; QUERY EXPANSION; ACQUISITION;
D O I
10.1002/asi.21037
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
External information plays an important role in group decision-making processes, yet research about external information support for Group Support Systems (GSS) has been lacking. In this study, we propose an approach to build a concept space to provide external concept support for GSS users. Built on a Web mining algorithm, the approach can mine a concept space from the Web and retrieve related concepts from the concept space based on users' comments in a real-time manner. We conduct two experiments to evaluate the quality of the proposed approach and the effectiveness of the external concept support provided by this approach. The experiment results indicate that the concept space mined from the Web contained qualified concepts to stimulate divergent thinking. The results also demonstrate that external concept support in GSS greatly enhanced group productivity for idea generation tasks.
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页码:1057 / 1070
页数:14
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