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Summarizing Legal Depositions
Documents like legal depositions are used by lawyers and paralegals to ascertain the facts pertaining to a case. These documents capture the conversation between a lawyer and a deponent, which is in the form of questions and answers. Applying current automatic summarization methods to these …
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Summarizing Conditional Preference Networks
Preference modeling has been studied extensively in the literature, and has applications in recommender systems and automated decision-making. The eventual objective of working with preference models is to be able to reason about preferences over objects, often referred to as outcomes. In most of …
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Summarizing Developer Chat Conversations
In recent years there is an unprecedented growth in online communication and collaborative platforms like Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams,etc. These platforms facilitate communication among developers all over the world and allow distributed software development. Software developers rely on these …
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Summarizing data with representative patterns
… be explored. This thesis studied the problem of summarizing data with representative patterns. The objective is to find a set of patterns, which is much more concise but still contains rich information of the original data, and may provide valuable insights for further analysis of data. In the …
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Discovering and summarizing email conversations
… thesis, we study the problem of discovering and summarizing email conversations. We believe that our work can greatly support users with their email folders. However, the characteristics of email conversations, e.g., lack of synchronization, conversational structure and informal writing style, …
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Segmenting, Summarizing and Predicting Data Sequences
Temporal data is ubiquitous nowadays and can be easily found in many applications. Consider the extensively studied social media website Twitter. All the information can be associated with time stamps, and thus form different types of data sequences: a sequence of feature values of users who …
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Quantifying and summarizing tumor phylogeny solution spaces
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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An Examination of Strategic Difficulties in Summarizing Texts
This study examined the possibility that some eighth-graders' difficulties with summarization may be linked to deficits in strategic skills. Summarization was selected for study because it is an important task and one that many students find difficult. Furthermore, by studying the strategies …
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Summarizing audit trails in the Aeolus security platform
Aeolus is a programming platform that supports the development of secure applications that preserve the confidentiality of information entrusted to them. An important part of the Aeolus platform is an auditing subsystem that maintains a log in which it stores information about every security …
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Summarizing multiprocessor program execution with versatile, microarchitecture-independent snapshots
Computer architects rely heavily on software simulation to evaluate, refine, and validate new designs before they are implemented. However, simulation time continues to increase as computers become more complex and multicore designs become more common. This thesis investigates software structures …
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Scalable data analytics techniques for summarizing spatial network-based observations
Summarizing spatial network-based observations (SSNO) entails finding a compact description or representation of large spatial or spatio-temporal datasets. For example, transportation planners and engineers may need to identify road segments that pose risks for pedestrians and require redesign. …
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The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations
For the past decade, online deliberation platforms like Polis have expanded the reach of deliberative democracy, which calls for political decisions to be based on the results of fair and balanced discussions among citizens, by enabling larger deliberations. However, as these discussions often …
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Harvesting and summarizing user-generated content for advanced speech-based human-computer interaction
There have been many assistant applications on mobile devices, which could 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 …
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Training in Summarizing Notes: Effects of Teaching Students a Self-Regulation Study Strategy in Science Learning
… they were taught a SR study strategy called summarizing notes. A crossover repeated measures design was employed to understand the effectiveness of the treatment. Results indicated a weak, but positive correlation between how well students summarized notes and how well they performed on …
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The implementation of the exit slip strategy to examine the advancement of paraphrasing and summarizing Shakespearean text
<p>The purpose of this action research study was to help mediate areas of deficiency that were identified in the essay and composition writing of a group of freshman Honors' students. During this study, students were provided with specific strategies to interpret texts so they could begin to …
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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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The Nature And Provision Of Instruction In Summary Writing For Students From Years 7-9
… students' abilities to learn from texts is summarizing. Research into summarizing suggests it is a complex skill needing explicit and systematic instruction. However, materials to which teachers turn to for advice on strategies and instruction do not always reflect the findings of research. …
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Effects of metacognitive strategy instruction on sixth grade students' content reading comprehension
… well as the techniques of self-monitoring of the summarizing strategy to help them recall and organize key information from their social studies textbook. Twenty-one students in the control group were taught summarizing as a cognitive reading strategy without the metacognitive components of value, …
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General unsupervised explanatory opinion mining from text data
… data. We propose three new problems for further summarizing and understanding explanatory opinions and general unsupervised solutions for each problem. First, we propose (1) Explanatory Opinion Summarization (EOS) summarizing opinions that can explain a particular polarity of sentiment. EOS aims …
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