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Seat Usage Data Analysis and Its Application for Library Marketing MDL: Metrics Definition Language p. 248 Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics A Statistical Global Feature Extraction Method for Optical Font Recognition p. 257 Domain N-Gram Construction and Its Application to Text Editor p. 268 Grounding Two Notions of Uncertainty in Modal Conditional Statements p. 278 Deve...

Run-time resolution of library functions provides a rich and powerful opportunity to collect workload profiles and function/parameter trace information without source, special compilation, or special linking. This can be accomplished by having the linker resolve library functions to special wrapper functions that collect statistics before and after calling the real library function, leaving bot...

Additional copies are available for $20 per copy. Orders must be placed online through CLIR's Web site. Denise Troll Covey is associate university librarian of arts, archives, and technology at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2000-2001 she was also a distinguished fellow in the Digital Library Federation, leading the initiative on usage, usability, and user support. Her professional work focuses...

Chris Leeder is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information, University of Michigan, e-mail: cleeder@ umich.edu; Steven Lonn is Assistant Director of the USE Lab and Library Learning Analytics Specialist, University of Michigan, e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Chris Leeder and Steven Lonn, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC To better understa...

This case study in educational data mining (EDM) describes the motivation, methods, results, and best practices used while studying the usage data from users of a web-based tool, the Instructional Architect (IA.usu.edu). Our focus is twofold: (a) to highlight lessons learned for those new to data mining and (b) to introduce the analysis techniques of latent class modeling as an analysis tool. T...

We present the functionality, the contents, and the proper usage of the latest release of the SCASY software library

This paper describes the generic principles of Decomate-II’s Concept Browser. It discusses the three main problems in using a thesaurus or conceptual network to help users formulate database queries: the network maintenance problem, the network navigation problem, and the network-to-database mapping problem. Possible solutions to all these problems are proposed, based on previous experiences wi...