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Cross-language Information Retrieval
Two key assumptions shape the usual view of ranked retrieval: (1) that the
searcher can choose words for their query that might appear in the documents
that they wish to see, and (2) that ranking retrieved documents will suffice
because the searcher will be able to recognize those which they wished to find.
When the documents to be searched are in a language not known by the searcher,
neither assumption is true. In such cases, Cross-Language Information Retrieval
(CLIR) is needed. This chapter reviews the state of the art for CLIR and
outlines some open research questions.Comment: 49 pages, 0 figure
Turning to Peers: Integrating Understanding of the Self, the Condition, and Others’ Experiences in Making Sense of Complex Chronic Conditions
People are increasingly involved in the self-management of their own health, including chronic conditions. With technology advances, the choice of self-management practices, tools, and technologies has never been greater. The studies reported here investigated the information seeking practices of two different chronic health populations in their quest to manage their health conditions. Migraine and diabetes patients and clinicians in the UK and the US were interviewed about their information needs and practices, and representative online communities were explored to inform a qualitative study. We found that people with either chronic condition require personally relevant information and use a broad and varied set of practices and tools to make sense of their specific symptoms, triggers, and treatments. Participants sought out different types of information from varied sources about themselves, their medical condition, and their peers’ experiences of the same chronic condition. People with diabetes and migraine expended great effort to validate their personal experiences of their condition and determine whether these experiences were ‘normal’. Based on these findings, we discuss the need for future personal health technologies that support people in engaging in meaningful and personalised data collection, information seeking, and information sharing with peers in flexible ways that enable them to better understand their own condition
Annual Research Report, 2010-2011
Annual report of collaborative research projects of Old Dominion University faculty and students in partnership with business, industry and government.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/or_researchreports/1000/thumbnail.jp
Keyphrase Generation: A Multi-Aspect Survey
Extractive keyphrase generation research has been around since the nineties,
but the more advanced abstractive approach based on the encoder-decoder
framework and sequence-to-sequence learning has been explored only recently. In
fact, more than a dozen of abstractive methods have been proposed in the last
three years, producing meaningful keyphrases and achieving state-of-the-art
scores. In this survey, we examine various aspects of the extractive keyphrase
generation methods and focus mostly on the more recent abstractive methods that
are based on neural networks. We pay particular attention to the mechanisms
that have driven the perfection of the later. A huge collection of scientific
article metadata and the corresponding keyphrases is created and released for
the research community. We also present various keyphrase generation and text
summarization research patterns and trends of the last two decades.Comment: 10 pages, 5 tables. Published in proceedings of FRUCT 2019, the 25th
Conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT, Helsinki, Finlan
Enhancing the social issues components in our computing curriculum: Computing for the social good
The acceptance and integration of social issues into computing curricula is still a work in progress twenty years after it was first incorporated into the ACM Computing Curricula. Through an international survey of computing instructors, this paper corroborates prior work showing that most institutions include the societal impact of ICT in their programs. However, topics often concentrate on computer history, codes of ethics and intellectual property, while neglecting broader issues of societal impact. This paper explores how these neglected topics can be better developed through a subtle change of focus to the significant role that ICT plays in addressing the needs of the community. Drawing on the survey and a set of implementation cases, the paper provides guidance by means of examples and resources to empower teaching teams to engage students in the application of ICT to bring about positive social outcomes – computing for the social good
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