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The Fabric of Entropy: A Discussion on the Meaning of Fractional Information

Description: Why is the term information in English an uncountable noun, whereas in information theory it is a well-defined quantity? Since the amount of information can be quantified, what is the meaning of a fraction of that amount? This dissertation introduces a quasi-entropy matrix which developed from Claude Shannon's information measure as an analytical tool for behavioral studies. Such matrix emphasizes the role of relative characteristics of individual level data across different collections. The re… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Zhang, Yuan
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Personalized Recommendation Using Aspect-Aware Knowledge Graph Learning

Description: This study aims to apply user reviews and numerical ratings toward items to create an aspect-aware high-order representation for a recommendation system. We propose a novel aspect-aware knowledge graph recommendation model (AKGR) with the deep learning method to predict users' ratings on non-interacted items, from which more personalized recommendations can be made. First, we create a sequence-to-sequence encoder and decoder model by exploiting contextual and syntactic information in user revie… more
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Date: December 2022
Creator: Zhou, Jinfeng
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Examining Human Information Behavior on Social Media: Introducing the Concept of Social Noise

Description: Social media information behavior is increasingly critical, impacting not only individuals and groups but the beliefs, values, and direction of society and culture. The purpose of this study was to investigate how persistent observation by members of the online network influences social media users' information behavior, resulting in the phenomenon of social noise. Data analytics, including LDA, LSA, and clustering methodologies, were performed but could not provide information about the users'… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Zimmerman, Tara D
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