From science to practice: Bringing innovations to agronomy and forestry

Willems, Don J. M. and Koenderink, Nicole J. J. P. and Top, Jan L. (2015) From science to practice: Bringing innovations to agronomy and forestry. AGRÁRINFORMATIKA / JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL INFORMATICS, 6 (4). pp. 85-95. ISSN 2061-862X

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Abstract

The challenge of the work presented here is to make innovative research output in the agronomy andforestry domain accessible to end-users, so that it can be practically applied. We have developed an approach that consists of three key-elements: an ontology with domain knowledge, a set of documents that have been annotated and meta-annotated, and a system (ask-Valerie) that is based on a dialogue to represent the interaction between end user and system.We show that the dialogue-metaphor is a good way of modelling the interaction between user and system. The system helps the user in formulating his question and in answering it in a useful way. Meta-annotations ofkey-paragraphs in the document-base turn out to be relevant in assessing in one glance what the content of a document is. End-users are very enthusiasticabout the possibilities that ask-Valerie offers them in translating scientific results to their own situation.

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