25,112 research outputs found
Wikipedia editing and information literacy: A case study
Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the success of a Wikipedia editing assessment designed to improve the information literacy skills of a cohort of first-year undergraduate health sciences students.
Design/methodology/approach: In this action research case study (known hereafter as âthe projectâ to differentiate this action research from the studentsâ own research), students researched, wrote and published Wikipedia articles on Australia-centric health topics. Students were given a pre- and post-test to assess levels of self-confidence in finding, evaluating and referencing information. Student work was also analysed in terms of article length and quantity and the type of information sources used.
Findings: Tests revealed that studentsâ self-confidence in their information literacy skills improved overall. Analysis of student work revealed that students wrote longer articles and incorporated more references than expected. References used were of appropriate quality relevant to the article despite minimal instructions.
Originality/value: There are few studies that investigate information literacy development through Wikipedia editing in Australian universities. This study shows that Wikipedia editing is an effective way to carry out student assessment prior to essay writing and an innovative platform to improve information literacy skills in undergraduate students
Distant Supervision for Entity Linking
Entity linking is an indispensable operation of populating knowledge
repositories for information extraction. It studies on aligning a textual
entity mention to its corresponding disambiguated entry in a knowledge
repository. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm named distantly supervised
entity linking (DSEL), in the sense that the disambiguated entities that belong
to a huge knowledge repository (Freebase) are automatically aligned to the
corresponding descriptive webpages (Wiki pages). In this way, a large scale of
weakly labeled data can be generated without manual annotation and fed to a
classifier for linking more newly discovered entities. Compared with
traditional paradigms based on solo knowledge base, DSEL benefits more via
jointly leveraging the respective advantages of Freebase and Wikipedia.
Specifically, the proposed paradigm facilitates bridging the disambiguated
labels (Freebase) of entities and their textual descriptions (Wikipedia) for
Web-scale entities. Experiments conducted on a dataset of 140,000 items and
60,000 features achieve a baseline F1-measure of 0.517. Furthermore, we analyze
the feature performance and improve the F1-measure to 0.545
A critical theory and postmodernist approach to the teaching of accounting theory
[Abstract]: This paper outlines my teaching philosophy for the Accounting Theory subject. A Critical Theory and Postmodernist approach is recommended, which makes full use of non-accounting 'tangential material' (Boyce, 2004) and material from popular culture (Kell, 2004; Nilan, 2004). The paper discusses some classroom interactive activities, as well as interview results from interviews conducted with eleven international students and one Australian student at Charles Sturt University. The teaching approach proposed in this paper is to conduct classroom interactive activities which study theories and research results from a range of disciplines in order to illustrate key points that apply equally as much to accounting theories and the accounting research process, e.g. the Positive/Normative dichotomy. Classroom interactive activities are discussed in class using the 'dialogical approach' to education recommended by Freire (1996), Kaidonis (2004), Boyce (2004), and Thomson and Bebbington (2004). Once students gain experience in studying material from outside accounting, the interview results suggest that they are then better motivated (Wynder, 2006) and better equipped to study and evaluate accounting theories
Building an IT Taxonomy with Co-occurrence Analysis, Hierarchical Clustering, and Multidimensional Scaling
Different information technologies (ITs) are related in complex ways. How can the relationships among a large number of ITs be described and analyzed in a representative, dynamic, and scalable way? In this study, we employed co-occurrence analysis to explore the relationships among 50 information technologies discussed in six magazines over ten years (1998-2007). Using hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling, we have found that the similarities of the technologies can be depicted in hierarchies and two-dimensional plots, and that similar technologies can be classified into meaningful categories. The results imply reasonable validity of our approach for understanding technology relationships and building an IT taxonomy. The methodology that we offer not only helps IT practitioners and researchers make sense of numerous technologies in the iField but also bridges two related but thus far largely separate research streams in iSchools - information management and IT management
I Ain\u27t Takin\u27 No Plea : The Challenges in Counseling Young People Facing Serious Time
Criminal defendants daily entrust their liberty to the skill of their lawyers. The consequences of the lawyerâs decisions fall squarely upon the defendant. There is nothing untoward in this circumstance. To the contrary, the lawyer as the defendantâs representative is at the core of our adversary process.
As practicing lawyers know, interviewing and counseling are at the heart of legal representation. This is what lawyers do, even trial lawyers: we talk with and advise clients. As criminal lawyers know, the decision whether to go to trial is âthe most important single decisionâ a client faces, and requires wise counsel. When the decision is a close callâthere is no great cost to going to trial, no clear benefit to accepting a plea, and no serious downside either wayâit is easy to accede to a clientâs wishes. But when there is no question that going to trial will be ruinous, and the client does not understand this, it is incumbent upon the lawyer to get through to the client. This is especially true when the client is developmentally immature and emotionally traumatized
Media conglomerates
Literature review on international communciation and media conglomerate
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