Knowledge System Supporting ITS Deployment

What is it about?

Intelligent transportation systems are one of the most rapidly evolving areas, requiring an appropriate response from standardization bodies and adequate support from EU regulations. This results in a high and ever-expanding volume of technical standards. The authors demonstrate how to solve this problem. The proposed solution relies on the creation of standard extracts using a hybrid method that combines syntactic and semantic analysis and assumes human expert involvement. The paper presents the practical experience and results obtained from a long-term national project. A practical example is included so that the reader can comprehend a basic idea of the achieved results. The authors believe the proposed method can be adopted across other professional domains and other European countries.

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Why is it important?

Our hybrid method is a novel and valuable approach for mining full-text standards and fills a hole in the market of special-purpose methods used for information retrieval. Despite its narrow and specific focus (here in relation to the ITS domain), its principle is potentially applicable across other professional domains because it conforms to regulation [5] requirements. The success of the approach was proved by the survey of SMEs, the main (but not the only) target group. Publicly available extracts significantly reduce the time needed to study standards and make decisions on their potential use.

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