Research Act

A Research Act is an analysis act of a research task by a Researcher Entity (such as a research team).

• Context:
  • It can range from being Applied Research Activity to being Basic Research Activity.
  • It can range from being Empirical Research Activity to being a Theoretical Research Activity.
• Example(s):
  • Scientific Research, such as:
    • Data Mining Research, e.g. Graph Mining Research.
    • Machine Learning Research, e.g. Bayesian Network Research.
    • Statistics Research, e.g. ...
    • Natural Language Processing Research, e.g. Semantic Role Labeling Research.
    • Lexical Semantics Research.
    • Information Extraction Research.
  • Humanities Research, such as: ...
  • Aesthetic Research, such as: ...
• See: Practice, Applied Research, Basic Research, Development Activity.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=research
  • S: (v) research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner) "The student researched the history of that word"
  • S: (v) research, search, explore (inquire into) "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/research#Verb
  • Template:Transitive to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
  • Template:Intransitive to make an extensive investigation into.
  • Template:Transitive to search again.

2001

• (Webb et al., 2001) ⇒ Geoffrey I. Webb, Michael J. Pazzani, and Daniel Billsus. (2001). “Machine Learning for User Modeling.” In: Journal for User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 11(1-2) doi:10.1023/A:1011117102175
  • The current ML for UM resurgence has witnessed tremendous research activity. In contrast, the field still has a dearth of fielded applications.

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