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Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation

Description: In this paper, the authors discuss research on whether they can use Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to acquire good annotations with respect to gold-standard data, whether they can filter out low-quality workers (spammers), and whether there is a learning effect associated with repeatedly completing the same kind of task.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Akkaya, Cem; Conrad, Alexander; Wiebe, Janyce M. & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation

Description: This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subjective senses, and which are being used with objective senses.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Akkaya, Cem; Wiebe, Janyce M. & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Simulation of Throughput in UMTS Networks with Different Spreading Factors

Description: In this paper, the authors design and implement a local session admission control (SAC) algorithm for third-generation wireless networks which allows for the simulation of network throughput for different spreading factors and various mobility scenarios.
Date: September 2006
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Arepally, Anurag
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Retention and Recruitment of Women in Computer Engineering

Description: This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting women students to undergraduate computer engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). It also describes a series of activities aimed at improving retention rates of women students already in our programs. Such recruitment and retention of women is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Depa… more
Date: July 2006
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Garlick, Ryan
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Robocamp: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM

Description: This paper describes the efforts and results of a plan for actively recruiting students to undergraduate computer science and engineering programs at the University of North Texas (UNT). Such recruitment of students is critical to the country's efforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and is a priority for the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UNT.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Keathly, David
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Hybrid Energy-Aware Synchronization Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

Description: This paper discusses a time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks that aims to conserve sensor battery power while maintaining network connectivity for as long as possible.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Saravanos, Yanos
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Grid-based Coordinated Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Description: This paper discusses grid-based coordinated routing in wireless sensor networks and compares the energy available in the network over time for different grid sizes. The authors explore the quality of service of wireless sensor networks, how the coordinator nodes are elected, and the size of the grid area that will minimize the total energy consumption and extend the lifetime of the network.
Date: January 2007
Creator: Akl, Robert G. & Sawant, Uttara
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Throughput Optimization in Multi-Cell CDMA Networks

Description: In this paper, the authors investigate the performance of a multi-cell CDMA network by determining the maximum throughput that the network can archive for a given grade-of-service requirement, quality-of-service requirement, network topology and call arrival rate profile.
Date: March 2005
Creator: Akl, Robert G.; Naraghi-Pour, Mort & Hegde, Manju V.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Anchor Nodes Placement for Effective Passive Localization

Description: This paper discusses anchor nodes placement for effective passive localization. The authors show that, for effective passive localization, the optimal placement of the anchor nodes is at the center of the network in such a way that no three anchor nodes share linearity.
Date: 2011
Creator: Akl, Robert G.; Pasupathy, Karthikeyan & Haidar, Mohamad
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Parity Assisted Decision Making for QAM Modulation

Description: This paper discusses parity assisted decision making for QAM modulation.
Date: September 2006
Creator: Alhabsi, Amer H.; Al-Rizzo, Hussain Mudhaffar Younis, 1957- & Akl, Robert G.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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