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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Electronic Theses and Dissertations"”.
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Segmenting Electronic Theses and Dissertations By Chapters
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are structured documents in which chapters are major components. There is a lack of any repository that contains chapter boundary details alongside these structured documents. Revealing these details of the documents can help increase accessibility. This …
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Analyzing and Navigating Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) contain valuable scholarly information that can be of immense value to the scholarly community. Millions of ETDs are now publicly available online, often through one of many digital libraries. However, since a majority of these digital libraries are …
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Figure Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The ability to extract figures and tables from scientific documents can solve key use-cases such as their semantic parsing, summarization, or indexing. Although a few methods have been developed to extract figures and tables from scientific documents, their performance on scanned counterparts is …
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Increasing Accessibility of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Through Chapter-level Classification
… improvements made in natural language processing and machine learning to better mine data from journals, conference proceedings, and other digital library documents. However, these advances do not extend well to book-length documents such as electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). ETDs contain …
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Perceptions and attributes of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs): a South African study
Ubiquitous access to digital networks and the Internet have revolutionised the way multimedia information is being stored, accessed and disseminated by information services. New technologies have played an important role in redefining preferred information and communication models to facilitate the …
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Improving the Accessibility of Arabic Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) with Metadata and Classification
… extract data from scientific papers, journals, and articles. However, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) remain an unexplored genre of data in the research fields of natural language processing and machine learning. Moreover, much of the related research involved data that is in the …
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Navigating the PDF/A standard: a case study of theses in the University of Oxford’s institutional repository
… by the International Organization of Standardization as the ISO 19005 standard for long-term preservation of electronic documents. While the ISO requirements of a well-formed PDF/A ensure sustainability and easy recovery of content, the standard restricts some document features from …
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Topic Modeling for Heterogeneous Digital Libraries: Tailored Approaches Using Large Language Models
Digital libraries hold vast and diverse content, with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) being among the most diverse. ETDs span multiple disciplines and include unique terminology, making achieving clear and coherent topic representations challenging. Existing topic modeling techniques …
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Insights into the South African research landscape through mining theses and dissertations using transformer-based language models
… in the development of national research capacity and advanced knowledge production. In South Africa, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) constitute a substantial yet underutilised body of scholarly output for analysing postgraduate training, knowledge production, and scholarly influence. …
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Improving Access to ETD Elements Through Chapter Categorization and Summarization
The field of natural language processing and information retrieval has made remarkable progress since the 1980s. However, most of the theoretical investigation and applied experimentation is focused on short documents like web pages, journal articles, or papers in conference proceedings. Electronic …
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Using Concept Maps as a Tool for Cross-Language Relevance Determination
… maps, introduced by Novak, aid learners' understanding. I hypothesize that concept maps also can function as a summary of large documents, e.g., electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). I have built a system that automatically generates concept maps from English-language ETDs in the computing …
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Towards Logical Reasoning and Learning in Open and Dynamic Environments
We live in an increasingly open and dynamic world where knowledge is constantly evolving, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems must adapt to newly added information. A crucial aspect of AI systems is performing robust logical reasoning that makes reliable inferences, generates hypotheses, and …
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An analysis of the effect of a 21st-century-designed middle school on student achievement
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