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Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging

Description: This paper introduces several extractive approaches for automatic image tagging, relying exclusively on information mined from texts. Through evaluations on two datasets, the authors show that their methods exceed competitive baselines by a large margin, and compare favorably with the state-of-the-art that uses both textual and image features.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Leong, Chee Wee; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Hassan, Samer
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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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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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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The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens

Description: Article discussing the microbial communities in male first catch urine and how these are highly similar to those paired in urethral swab specimens.
Date: May 13, 2011
Creator: Dong, Qunfeng; Nelson, David E.; Toh, Evelyn; Diao, Lixia; Gao, Xiang; Fortenberry, J. Dennis et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers

Description: Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Yang, Tze-I; Torget, Andrew J., 1978- & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Scaffolding for Digital Curation Education: A One Week Unix Fundamentals Course

Description: This poster discusses scaffolding for digital curation eductaion. The authors will teach students how to perform commands such as changing directories, moving and copying files, compressing folders, and altering permissions in the Unix environment. This will give students some basic preparation for digital curation work and for the (4) intermediate and advanced courses in digital curation and data management offered by the iCamp Project at the University of North Texas.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Helsing, Joseph; Lewis, Paulette; Moen, William E. & Salter, Jacqueline
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Reducing Our Carbon Footprint through Ridesharing

Description: This report discusses research on reducing our carbon footprint through ridesharing. The focus of this research project was to analyze and collect travel trajectories to calculate carbon footprints under different travel modes and identify ways to reduce it.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garrett, Kim; Bell, Jesse; Huang, Yan & Powell, James
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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