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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"User-generated Data"”.
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Harvesting and summarizing user-generated content for advanced speech-based human-computer interaction
… help people obtain rich Web content such as user-generated data (e.g., reviews, posts, blogs, and tweets). However, online communities and social networks are expanding rapidly and it is impossible for people to browse and digest all the information via simple search interface. To help users …
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Quantitative Methods For Select Problems In Facility Location And Facility Logistics
… in disaster relief with both verified data and unverified user-generated data are available for consideration during decision making. A total of three decision strategies that can be used by an emergency manager faced with a POD location decision for which both verified and unverified …
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Mapping the spaces in-between: how ICT can assist in providing a safer and more efficient commuter experience for all
… deeper knowledge around the experiences of NMT users within the CBD – a qualitative method of research was applied. The research used a gender-sensitive lens in order to gain an understanding as to how gender roles contribute to issues of personal safety and issues of mobility within the urban …
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A framework for finding and summarizing product defects, and ranking helpful threads from online customer forums through machine learning
The Internet has revolutionized the way users share and acquire knowledge. As important and popular Web-based applications, online discussion forums provide interactive platforms for users to exchange information and report problems. With the rapid growth of social networks and an ever increasing …
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Promoting Systematic Practices for Designing and Developing Edge Computing Applications via Middleware Abstractions and Performance Estimation
… to active generators of massive amounts of user-generated data. Edge-based processing eliminates network bottlenecks and improves data privacy. However, developing edge applications remains hard, with developers often have to employ ad-hoc software development practices to meet their …
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From Post to Policy: Using Social Media Data to Inform Decision-Making
… methods as they seek to understand preferences, user-generated data on social media—coupled with advanced methods of Natural Language Processing—can, in certain cases, serve as a valid alternative. In this thesis, I introduce a novel data set of global social media content and present a …
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Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents
<p>User-generated online data has, in recent years, become an important basis for sociological research, and the ubiquity of social media presages the importance of an increased understanding of its inner workings in the spheres of criminology and sociology. This dissertation examines the dynamics …
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Exploring link, text and spatial-temporal data in social media
With the development of Web 2.0, a huge amount of user generated data in social media sites is attracting the attentions from different research areas. Social media data has heterogenous data types including link, text and spatial-temporal information, which poses many interesting and challenging …
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Data-driven design for industrial applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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A social network analysis of the use of social media to promote agriculture to indonesian youth
… youth participation in agriculture through user-generated data and for policymakers, government, and stakeholders to design more effective ways to increase youth participation in the sector. Keywords: Youth, social network analysis, youth participation, agriculture, farmer regeneration.
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Computational user intent modeling
User modeling is essential for any information service system (e.g., search engines, recommender systems, and computational advertising) to optimize its service to the end users. The level of user understanding directly determines the upper bound of optimality that such a system can achieve when …
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A temporal topic model for social trend prediction
… media provides increasing opportunities for users to voluntarily share their thoughts and concerns in a large volume of data. While user-generated data from each individual may not provide considerable information, when combined, they include variables which can convey significant events. In …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… To this end, this dissertation introduces user-generated interpretations of song lyrics that are abundant on the web as a proxy for assessing the qualitative dimensions of lyric complexity. To be specific, this study first examines whether the user-generated data provide quality topic …
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Inferring landscape preferences from social media using data science techniques
… such as social surveys, create high quality data but have high cost of time and effort and are poorly suited to capture dynamic landscape-scale changes across large geographic scales. With the rapid rise in social media, a huge amount of user-generated data is now available for researchers to …
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Explainable AI for Social Good: Applications in Mental Health, Public Health Risk, and Environmental Traceability
… modeling. With the increasing availability of user-generated data, environmental samples, and public health records, AI-driven tools have played a significant role in predictive analysis. However, a persistent challenge remains: in domains with significant societal implications, the …