Web Reviews: Counterbalance

Social Web Reviews

In this paper we propose a new way of writing web reviews. The problem lies in the static structure of web reviews. Traditionally speaking, a site administrator or user writes up a review and enters his scores onto a review website. Once the content is ready to be publicly viewed the database just retrieves the information and displays it as it is. This means a review will have the same total s...

Interactional Feedback and Instructional Counterbalance

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

REVIEWS

Capsule Reviews Representation of Web Data in a Web Warehouse

When, last summer, a meeting of editorial board members of The Computer Journal was proposed for January 2003, one of those planning to attend was Roger Needham. His participation was not to be. Following a struggle with cancer, Roger Needham passed away on 28 February 2003. Roger was one of les grands of computer science. His work ranged over an incredibly wide swathe of computer science. His ...

Mining Product Reviews in Web Forums

Internet has brought a major drift in user community. Apart from its well-known usage, it also promotes social networking. Research on such social networking has advanced significantly in recent years which have been highly influenced by the online social websites. People perceive the web as a social medium that allows larger interaction among people, sharing of knowledge, or experiences. Inter...