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Showing 1 to 20 of 395 for “"forums"”.
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Understanding App Inventor forums
… In order to leverage the information on the forums to improve App Inventor, we must first understand what is being discussed. In this thesis, we used unsupervised machine learning methods to automate discovery of discussion topics. First, we transformed posts into feature vectors using a …
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Understanding Empathy in Online Support Forums
… within mental health and social support forums, understanding how empathy is communicated through text has become increasingly important. Most prior computational work has focused on modeling empathy through emotional signals, such as identifying affective states or sentiment in text. …
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Suicidal Ideation Detection in Incel Forums
… no censorship. While many discussions in incel forums deal with their shared hate for women, there are numerous posts about individuals’ suicidal thoughts and plans. On top of suicide being a severe public health problem, the emergence of lone wolf terrorist attacks perpetrated by individuals …
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Understanding user intents in online health forums
Online health forums provide a convenient way for patients to obtain medical information and connect with physicians and peers outside of clinical settings. However, the large quantities of unstructured and diversified content generated on these forums make it difficult for users to digest and …
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Mitigating selective exposure in social media forums
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Topic mining and categorization in online discussion forums
Online Forums provide a useful way to engage in discussions about a wide variety of topics, as well as gather custom information for which an exact source may not be available, using a combination of knowledge and human interpretation. Usually forums have categories which cater to a particular …
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Online Self-Injury Forums, Social Support, And Psychological Distress
… clinicians and the general population. Internet forums where people who engage in the behavior may discuss topics related to NSSI have become widespread. The effects of those websites on people who engage in the behavior have not been researched. This study used structural equation modeling to …
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An analysis of help seeking in course discussion forums
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Finding similar questions in large-scale community QA forums
Question answering forums are rapidly growing in size with no automated ability to refer to and reuse existing answers. In this paper, we develop a methodology for finding semantically related questions. The task is difficult since 1) key pieces of information are often buried in extraneous details …
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German works councils - a model for South African workplace forums?
The aim of the introduction of workplace forums in South Africa in 1995 was to move away from adversarial bargaining to joint problem-solving and participation by employees on selected issues in order to advance economic development and global competitiveness, social justice, labour peace and the …
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An exploration of help-giving in online college course discussion forums
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Use of Visual Content for Inference and Response in Q/A Forums
In the rapidly evolving landscape of developer communities, Q&A platforms serve as crucial resources for crowdsourcing developers' knowledge. A notable trend is the increasing use of images to convey complex queries more effectively. However, the current state-of-the-art method of duplicate …
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A Multidisciplinary Study Of Antecedents To Voluntary Knowledge Contribution Within Online Forums
One challenge faced by online forums is the provision of a sustainable supply of contributions of knowledge (Wasco et al., 2009). Previous studies have identified online trust and perceived critical mass as antecedents of online knowledge contributions. However, the dynamic aspects of antecedents …
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Alternative Methods and Forums to Optimize Public Participation in the Planning Process
“Public participation” takes on various forms in the realm of local government planning. Many planners stand behind the ideal of involving community, but participation in practice often fails to achieve this objective. The primary vehicle for local government participation is the public hearing, …
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Οι εκδηλώσεις και τα forums ως μέσα πολιτικού marketing, επικοινωνίας και προβολής
Στόχος της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση του ρόλου και της επιρροής των εκδηλώσεων στο πεδίο του πολιτικού μάρκετινγκ. Η μελέτη εξετάζει τον βαθμό στον οποίο η φυσική παρουσία πολιτικών προσώπων σε μεγάλες εκδηλώσεις επηρεάζει την πολιτική εικόνα, την εμπιστοσύνη των πολιτών …
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iKNOWx Forum Search: a system for case retrieval in online medical forums
… model for case retrieval from online medical forums. This model uses semantic query weighting to obtain a more accurate representation of a case query. Semantic query weighting involves identifying descriptive words, such as those describing symptoms or medi- cation, and weighting those terms …
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
Cybercrime forums and marketplaces are used by members to share hacking techniques, general community-building discussions, and trade hacking tools. While there is a large corpus of literature studying these platforms, from a cross-forum ecosystem comparison to smaller qualitative analyses of …
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing developmental outcomes and …
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Village governance and deliberative democracy: Examining empowered deliberative forums in rural villages, Indonesia
… structures and empowering deliberative forums in rural areas. Yet, most studies of deliberative democracy are based in contexts from the Global North. To date, most deliberative democracy studies have focused on deliberation processes, largely bypassing developmental outcomes and …
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An examination of gendered discourse in the discussion forums of online STEM courses
… gatekeeper to women’s online success: discussion forums. Although many scholars agree that discussion forums are important components of online courses because of the collaboration and community they foster, there are gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms behind how discussion forums …
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