6 research outputs found
Profiling the news spreading barriers using news headlines
News headlines can be a good data source for detecting the news spreading
barriers in news media, which may be useful in many real-world applications. In
this paper, we utilize semantic knowledge through the inference-based model
COMET and sentiments of news headlines for barrier classification. We consider
five barriers including cultural, economic, political, linguistic, and
geographical, and different types of news headlines including health, sports,
science, recreation, games, homes, society, shopping, computers, and business.
To that end, we collect and label the news headlines automatically for the
barriers using the metadata of news publishers. Then, we utilize the extracted
commonsense inferences and sentiments as features to detect the news spreading
barriers. We compare our approach to the classical text classification methods,
deep learning, and transformer-based methods. The results show that the
proposed approach using inferences-based semantic knowledge and sentiment
offers better performance than the usual (the average F1-score of the ten
categories improves from 0.41, 0.39, 0.59, and 0.59 to 0.47, 0.55, 0.70, and
0.76 for the cultural, economic, political, and geographical respectively) for
classifying the news-spreading barriers.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2304.0816
Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination
The purpose of this study is to analyse COVID-19 related news published
across different geographical places, in order to gain insights in reporting
differences. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major outbreak in January 2020 and was
followed by different preventive measures, lockdown, and finally by the process
of vaccination. To date, more comprehensive analysis of news related to
COVID-19 pandemic are missing, especially those which explain what aspects of
this pandemic are being reported by newspapers inserted in different economies
and belonging to different political alignments. Since LDA is often less
coherent when there are news articles published across the world about an event
and you look answers for specific queries. It is because of having semantically
different content. To address this challenge, we performed pooling of news
articles based on information retrieval using TF-IDF score in a data processing
step and topic modeling using LDA with combination of 1 to 6 ngrams. We used
VADER sentiment analyzer to analyze the differences in sentiments in news
articles reported across different geographical places. The novelty of this
study is to look at how COVID-19 pandemic was reported by the media, providing
a comparison among countries in different political and economic contexts. Our
findings suggest that the news reporting by newspapers with different political
alignment support the reported content. Also, economic issues reported by
newspapers depend on economy of the place where a newspaper resides
Role of Principals' Motivational Strategies and Performance of Elementary Schools Teachers Regarding their Academic Qualification
School heads used techniques of motivation for increasing the performance of teachers in teaching learning process. Head teachers encourage teachers to perform their duties devotedly by using different techniques. This study aimed to find the effect of principals' motivational strategies on the performance of teachers on the basis of their academic qualifications. All elementary teachers working in 60 public schools of district Sheikhpura were the population of the study. Six hundred elementary teachers were selected for sample by using the technique of cluster random sampling. The study was conducted to examine the effect of motivational techniques used by schools' principals to develop performance of teachers on the basis of their academic qualification . A standardized research instrument as questionnaire was comprised of 48 items from eight most important techniques of motivation. Data of statistical analysis showed significant difference exist among factors such as appreciation, recognition, performance appraisal, monetary benefits and rewards and promotion. It is recommended that heads may offer award and gifts to teachers for developing their performance in academic activities
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OEKG: The Open Event Knowledge Graph
Accessing and understanding contemporary and historical events of global impact such as the US elections and the Olympic Games is a major prerequisite for cross-lingual event analytics that investigate event causes, perception and consequences across country borders. In this paper, we present the Open Event Knowledge Graph (OEKG), a multilingual, event-centric, temporal knowledge graph composed of seven different data sets from multiple application domains, including question answering, entity recommendation and named entity recognition. These data sets are all integrated through an easy-to-use and robust pipeline and by linking to the event-centric knowledge graph EventKG. We describe their common schema and demonstrate the use of the OEKG at the example of three use cases: type-specific image retrieval, hybrid question answering over knowledge graphs and news articles, as well as language-specific event recommendation. The OEKG and its query endpoint are publicly available
Measuring Life Skills of Elementary School Teachers in District Narowal
Life skills are an integral and important component of a successful life of individuals. In order to increase productivity and advancement in life, education must focus on the development and enhancement of potentially up dated life skills in students specially during school years. Teachers can do it efficiently if they have acquired these skills. The aim of the study was to identify life skills of elementary school teachers. The study was quantitative in nature and used survey method. The population of the study was all the elementary school teachers of district Narowal of province Punjab. The sample of the study was 286 elementary school teachers from district Narowal. A questionnaire was developed by the researchers for data collection which contained statements related to life skills i.e. self-awareness, empathy, Interpersonal Relationship Skills, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creative thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Coping with Stress, and Coping with Emotions. Instrument was validated by a pilot study. The reliability index Cronbach alpha was .79. Mean scores and standard deviations were calculated. The findings of the study indicated that teachers have acquired most of the life skills. It is suggested to include practical experiences in prevailing curriculum to develop life skills in students in order to develop life skills in students and oppose rigidity in current education system. Keywords: Life skills, elementary school teacher