Weaving intranet relations: managing web content
Ulrich Bohnacker, Lars Dehning, Jürgen Franke, Ingrid Renz, René Schneider · 2000
We will give an overview of the WIR (Weaving Intranet Relations) system, a tool for offline computation and online retrieval of similar intranet documents. Text similarities are computed from a large collection of HTMLDocuments and represented in a similarity matrix. With a click on a "What's Related?"-button, the user starts an intranet query for comparable documents with the full text as query input and receives a list of similar texts ranked by their corresponding similarity. The system is fully implemented and integrated into the intranet of a major company. 1 Motivation Currently intranets play an important role in large companies and their impact as knowledge management tools on efficient business communication and administration will grow considerably in the future. Thus at an already early stage, the intranet collection of texts, images, videos etc. might turn into a confusing pell-mell. Very often people in large companies do not know that colleagues in another department ha...