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Extraction and Analysis of Dynamic Conversational Networks from TV Series
Identifying and characterizing the dynamics of modern tv series subplots is
an open problem. One way is to study the underlying social network of
interactions between the characters. Standard dynamic network extraction
methods rely on temporal integration, either over the whole considered period,
or as a sequence of several time-slices. However, they turn out to be
inappropriate in the case of tv series, because the scenes shown onscreen
alternatively focus on parallel storylines, and do not necessarily respect a
traditional chronology. In this article, we introduce Narrative Smoothing, a
novel network extraction method taking advantage of the plot properties to
solve some of their limitations. We apply our method to a corpus of 3 popular
series, and compare it to both standard approaches. Narrative smoothing leads
to more relevant observations when it comes to the characterization of the
protagonists and their relationships, confirming its appropriateness to model
the intertwined storylines constituting the plots.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.0781
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
Maurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
CEAI: CCM based Email Authorship Identification Model
In this paper we present a model for email authorship identification (EAI) by
employing a Cluster-based Classification (CCM) technique. Traditionally,
stylometric features have been successfully employed in various authorship
analysis tasks; we extend the traditional feature-set to include some more
interesting and effective features for email authorship identification (e.g.
the last punctuation mark used in an email, the tendency of an author to use
capitalization at the start of an email, or the punctuation after a greeting or
farewell). We also included Info Gain feature selection based content features.
It is observed that the use of such features in the authorship identification
process has a positive impact on the accuracy of the authorship identification
task. We performed experiments to justify our arguments and compared the
results with other base line models. Experimental results reveal that the
proposed CCM-based email authorship identification model, along with the
proposed feature set, outperforms the state-of-the-art support vector machine
(SVM)-based models, as well as the models proposed by Iqbal et al. [1, 2]. The
proposed model attains an accuracy rate of 94% for 10 authors, 89% for 25
authors, and 81% for 50 authors, respectively on Enron dataset, while 89.5%
accuracy has been achieved on authors' constructed real email dataset. The
results on Enron dataset have been achieved on quite a large number of authors
as compared to the models proposed by Iqbal et al. [1, 2]
Fluvial dynamics and watermills location in Basilicata (Southern Italy)
Watermills (grain mills, waulk mills, olive mills, sawmills and
threshing machines) operated in the Basilicata Region from the Roman
Period until the early decades of the twentieth century, representing an
important feature of waterways that is today almost totally forgotten. Using
documentary sources, ancient maps and field survey it is possible to
catalogue and identify the location of these ancient hydraulic structures.
Watermills were usually placed far enough away from the river to avoid
inundation during floods, and near natural knickpoints or artificial steps
in the river long profile that were created by mill engineers. Mill construction
often had significant impacts on a rivers morphology, because
it was necessary to divert the river discharge towards the mill wheel, to
drive the grain-grinding mechanism. Watermill typological variations
have been examined in relation to variations in river pattern to assess
the ways in which the hydrographic and hydrological settings of the Basilicata
Region have affected mill siting and operation. Most Basilicata
watermills were built with a horizontal water-wheel and a tower. The
characteristics of the tower and the associated hydraulic structures varied
according to the environmental setting. Finally, mill positions define
also the locations on the river system that have already been used
to exploit hydraulic power and thus could be useful for future use in the
micro-hydroelectric secto
Peer mediation for conflict management: a Singaporean case study
The burgeoning interest in conflict and its management has recently begun to impact on schools and school systems worldwide. Motivated by a concern for increasing levels of violence in schools and student�student conflict, many school administrators are looking at conflict management programs as a means of dealing with the problem. Most of the more widely used programs have their origins in the United States; their appropriateness and effectiveness in other countries and cultures is, at best, unknown, and in some respects open to conjecture. In this paper the cultural appropriateness of a peer mediation program in a primary school in Singapore is the subject of investigation. The study also addresses, in an exploratory manner, the effectiveness of peer mediation as a mechanism for student�student conflict management
Promoting Higher Order Thinking In Chinese Language Literary Text via Online Social Network
This study aims to investigate the impact of technological application (Wiki) in promoting the skill of higher order thinking. The study highlights the teaching and learning of literary text for higher order thinking in a blended learning environment using Wikispaces as a platform. The objectives of this study are to explore the incorporation of Wiki within teaching and learning of literary text in developing higher order thinking. The instruments used for this qualitative study are content analysis on web pages, and group interviews. It was found that, the features of open-editing, discussion posting and video embedding are enabling effective instructions that leads to higher order thinking development in the learning of literary text. Keywords: higher order thinking, online social network, Wikispace
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