Automated citation sentiment analysis is a newly emerged research topic inspired by traditional citation context analysis in scientometrics and applied linguistics. The main goals of current citation sentiment analysis are to develop new tools to model scientific literature and provide authoring support for researchers in tasks like literature review. In terms of developing authoring support to...

How can a public educational organization deal with new information requirements from outside the organization when there are problems with the internal data flows? The German school system is currently changing towards data-driven decision-making for school improvement and accountability. Data becomes an important asset and building large-scale information systems becomes a necessity. In other...

Testing products with representative users is a key factor for usercentered design. When such representative users are disabled children the user testing process becomes a challenge and in this case evaluation methods based on heuristics and inspection could not attend the final user needs. The major purpose of our research is to provide an evaluation method that could measure disabled children...

Entity search is an emerging research topic in Information Retrieval, where the goal is to rank not documents, but entities in response to a given query. A particularly challenging example of this search scenario is when a user’s underlying information need is for a list of entities related to a given entity, represented in the query. In this paper, we propose to tackle this problem as a voting...

The rollout of laptop computers costing several thousands of dollars each to a work force is a major undertaking and investment. Some degree of corporate discipline and policy must be established for laptop computing. From the start, the entire rollout process should be shaped by a clear, specific set of goals directed to a quantified return on investment (ROI). The amount of dollars that can b...

The social networking sites have brought a new horizon for expressing views and opinions of individuals. Moreover, they provide medium to students to share their sentiments including struggles and joy during the learning process. Such informal information has a great venue for decision making. The large and growing scale of information needs automatic classification techniques. Sentiment analys...

The paper examines the education and training of adults in ethics. It applies to courses at universities and colleges as well as in the work place. The paper explores the evidence on our ability to strengthen moral behaviour through courses on ethics, finds it to be weak, so starts with the assumption that we cannot teach people to be ethical. The paper asks therefore what the objectives of a c...

Abstract: This paper describes an approach for automatically classifying visitors of a web site according to their access patterns. User access logs are examined to discover clusters of users that exhibit similar information needs; e.g., users that access similar pages. This may result in a better understanding of how users visit the site, and lead to an improved organization of the hypertext d...

This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from written topics. These two sets of queries are compared in qualitative terms and in terms of their retrieval effectiveness. Written and spoken queries are compared in terms of length, duration, and part of speech. In additi...