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Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assistive Technology Services

Description: This article is an introduction to the special issue Assistive Technology Services During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was created to provide a historical record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of assistive technology services in schools.
Date: 2022
Creator: Edyburn, Dave & Howard, Erin L.
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Temporal Variations and Spatial Disparities in Public Sentiment Toward COVID-19 and Preventive Practices in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets

Description: Article discusses how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, US public health authorities and county, state, and federal governments recommended or ordered certain preventative practices, such as wearing masks, to reduce the spread of the disease. The purpose of this study was to understand the variations in public sentiment toward COVID-19 and the recommended or ordered preventive practices from the temporal and spatial perspectives, as well as how the variations in public sentiment are related to geo… more
Date: December 30, 2021
Creator: Kahanek, Alexander; Yu, Xinchen; Hong, Lingzi; Cleveland, Ana D., 1943- & Philbrick, Jodi
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Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos

Description: This article presents a study that aims to identify strategies for using video-based social media to combat stigmatized diseases, such as mental health, among college students. The authors identify effective strategies for designing video-based social media content for supporting college students’ mental health. Results show that the videos where individuals share their personal stories, as well as experiential knowledge (ie, tips and advice), engaged more viewers in both the short term and lon… more
Date: November 11, 2021
Creator: Choi, Bogeum; Kim, Heejun & Huh-Yoo, Jina
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Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want

Description: This article is a review of literature for skills comprised within the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria determined 26 topics necessary for the entry-level and continued success of engineers. The findings suggest that although entry-level engineers have proficiency in all of these ABET required skills, the entry-level engineers were not meeting the level of importance expressed by the organization for 24 of these 26 skills.
Date: October 14, 2021
Creator: Hirudayaraj, Malar; Baker, Rose M.; Baker, Francie & Eastman, Mike
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Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Description: Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive

Description: Article describing a pilot project undertaken at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) which explores a collaborative archiving approach to enable language community members to tell their own stories by adding contextual information to archival materials. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary
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Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL

Description: Article on the development of a workflow process that can accommodate the range of different language depositors in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Dale, Merrion
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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Description: Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
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Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments

Description: This article covers the challenges brought about for teachers and learners from transitioning to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors reflect on these challenges based on discussions at EDUsummIT2019 in Quebec about the theme “Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age." Informed by theoretical conceptualization and empirical evidence the authors identify micro-meso-macro alignments that need to be in place to move education into the digital age: al… more
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
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Enhancement of COVID-19 Diagnosis using Machine Learning and Texture Analyses of Lung Imaging

Description: Article proposing CoviSegNet, an enhanced U-Net model to segment ground-glass opacities and consolidations in CT scans of Covid-19 positive patients. The performance of CoviSegNet was evaluated on three public CT datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed CoviSegNet is highly promising.
Date: 2021-09-13/2021-09-15
Creator: Oh, JungHwan & Mittal, Bhuvan
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Synthetic data for annotation and extraction of family history information from clinical text

Description: This article investigates the use of synthetic data for the annotation and automated extraction of family history information relating to cases of cardiac disease from Norwegian clinical text. This work assesses the validity and applicability of the annotated synthetic corpus using machine learning techniques. The methodology outlined in this article may be useful in other situations where limited availability of clinical text hinders NLP tasks.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Brekke, Pål H.; Kasicheyanula, Taraka; Pilán, Ildikó; Nytrø, Øystein & Øvrelid, Lilja
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Digital humanities in the iSchool

Description: This article presents findings from a series of related studies exploring aspects of Digital Humanities teaching, education, and research in iSchools, often in collaboration with other units and disciplines. Results provide a snapshot of the current state of digital humanities in iSchools which may usefully inform the design and evolution of new DH programs, degrees, and related initiatives.
Date: June 21, 2021
Creator: Walsh, John A.; Cobb, Peter J.; de Fremery, Wayne; Golub, Koraljka; Keah, Humphrey; Kim, Jeonghyun et al.
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A New Citation Recommendation Strategy Based on Term Functions in Related Studies Section

Description: This article focuses on citation recommendation in the related studies section by applying the term function of a citation context, potentially improving the efficiency of writing a literature review. The citation recommendation strategy can be helpful for valuable citation discovery, semantic scientific retrieval, and automatic literature review generation.
Date: May 8, 2021
Creator: Chen, Haihua
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A Virtual Kitchen Protocol to Measure Everyday Memory Functioning for Meal Preparation

Description: This article develops a virtual reality-based measure of everyday memory functioning for meal preparation tasks. The results support the construct validity of the VKP and suggest that it holds promise as a virtual reality-based measure of memory for meal preparation tasks.
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Barnett, Michael D.; Childers, Lucas G. & Parsons, Thomas D.
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A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020

Description: This article provides a content analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. The content analysis shows that the research questions can be classified into development layer (classification, matching, recommendation, and deep learning), application layer (feedback, reasoning, and adaptive learning), and integration layer (affection com… more
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu Yung; Istenic, Andreja; Spector, Michael et al.
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Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials

Description: This article reports the first empirical investigation of various dimensions of organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information in language archives. The study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Results demonstrate that, while some of the phenomena related to organization of information in language archives are specific to these types of archives, others are more typical and have been addressed by libraries in past research and practice.
Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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A Smart Collaborative Educational Game with Learning Analytics to Support English Vocabulary Teaching

Description: This article applies learning analytics to design a smart collaborative educational game to enhance primary school children's learning of English vocabulary. The findings of this study can help researchers and practitioners incorporate LA in their educational games to help students enhance language acquisition.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Tlili, Ahmed; Hattab, Sarra; Essalmi, Fathi; Chen, Nian-Shing; Huang, Ronghuai; Kinshuk et al.
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Neural classification of Norwegian radiology reports: using NLP to detect findings in CT-scans of children

Description: This article trained machine learning techniques to classify Norwegian radiology reports of pediatric CT examinations according to their description of abnormal findings. The developed models are robust with respect to different contexts, and may be used in quality assurance processes.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Dahl, Fredrik A.; Rama, Taraka; Hurlen, Petter; Brekke, Pål H.; Husby, Haldor; Gundersen, Tore et al.
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Computational modeling of human reasoning processes for interpretable visual knowledge: a case study with radiographers

Description: Article proposing a computational method to quantify and dissect visual reasoning. The method characterizes spatial and temporal features and identifies common and contrast visual reasoning patterns to extract significant gaze activities. The visual reasoning patterns are explainable and can be compared among different groups to discover strategy differences. Empirical observations show that the method can capture the temporal and spatial features of human visual attention and distinguish exper… more
Date: December 10, 2020
Creator: Li, Yuan; Cao, Hongfei; Allen, Carla M.; Wang, Xin; Erdelez, Sanda & Shyu, Chi-Ren
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Embracing Monsters

Description: This article proposes monsters are documents and examines the coding and decoding of monster documents through a functional ontology lens. This article was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy.
Date: December 3, 2020
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark & Bonnici, Laurie J.
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