scholarly journals Leveraging Publicly Available Information to Analyze Information Operations

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Nico Manzonelli ◽  
Taylor Brown ◽  
Antonio Avellandea-Ruiz ◽  
William Bagley ◽  
Ian Kloo
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Model System ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
Available Information

Traditionally, a significant part of assessing information operations (IO) relies on subject matter experts’ time- intensive study of publicly available information (PAI). Now, with massive amounts PAI made available via the Internet, analysts are faced with the challenge of effectively leveraging massive quantities of PAI to draw meaningful conclusions. This paper presents an automated method for collecting and analyzing large amounts of PAI from China that could better inform assessments of IO campaigns. We implement a multi-model system that involves data acquisition via web scraping and analysis using natural language processing (NLP) techniques with a focus on topic modeling and sentiment analysis. After conducting a case study on China’s current relationship with Taiwan and comparing the results to validated research by a subject matter expert, it is clear that our methodology is valuable for drawing general conclusions and pinpointing important dialogue over a massive amount of PAI.

A Practitioner’s Approach to Collaborative Usability Testing

2013 ◽  
pp. 117-144
Author(s):  
Julie Buelow
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
The Public

The purpose of this case study is to outline a methodology for collaborative usability testing developed in a local government setting where subject matter experts (SMEs), content owners, stakeholders, IT professionals and the public are engaged in the design and development of public sector websites.

Virtual/Mixed Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Dale Crowe ◽  
Martin E. LaPierre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Information Systems Professionals ◽  
Generational Shift

Use of classroom and online learning and administrative technologies in schools and higher education institutions has grown at an exponential pace. With growth comes expectations by students of using new and emerging technologies to support their learning. Such expectations are due in part to the generational shift from digital immigrant to more students being digital natives, and is particularly true for Gen z/iGen/Centennials (born in 1996 or later). The purpose of the critical review and exploratory case study was to gain insights from 18 instructional designers, information systems professionals, and content/subject matter experts pertaining to the current and future use of virtual/mixed reality technologies for both public and higher education.

Virtual/Mixed Reality

2019 ◽  
pp. 382-398
Author(s):  
Dale Crowe ◽  
Martin E. LaPierre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Information Systems Professionals ◽  
Generational Shift

Use of classroom and online learning and administrative technologies in schools and higher education institutions has grown at an exponential pace. With growth comes expectations by students of using new and emerging technologies to support their learning. Such expectations are due in part to the generational shift from digital immigrant to more students being digital natives, and is particularly true for Gen z/iGen/Centennials (born in 1996 or later). The purpose of the critical review and exploratory case study was to gain insights from 18 instructional designers, information systems professionals, and content/subject matter experts pertaining to the current and future use of virtual/mixed reality technologies for both public and higher education.

scholarly journals Negotiating pedagogical challenges in the shift from face-to-face to fully online learning: A case study of collaborative design solutions by learning designers and subject matter experts

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Belinda Davey ◽  
◽  
Kristine Elliott ◽  
Maria Bora ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The University

With the increasing number of students enrolled in fully online programs and subjects across different Australian universities, online education has become a popular higher education alternative. The University of Melbourne has responded to this challenge by establishing the Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education (MSPACE), where the learning designers (LDs), project managers, educational technologists, graphic designers and video producers work collaboratively with subject matter experts (SMEs) from across the university to create high-quality fully online graduate subjects. The case study presented in this article examines how MSPACE used this team-based approach to design and develop Psychodynamic Psychiatry, a six-week elective in the Master of Psychiatry. This paper examines a number of pedagogical challenges that arise when converting a pre-existing face-to-face subject to a fully online subject, as well as some relatively unique aspects in the design and development process utilised by MSPACE. While the approach provided by MSPACE currently focuses on supporting SMEs by providing access to third-space professionals, it is hoped that this will act as a conduit through which the SMEs are enculturated into the ways of design thinking for effective online teaching and learning practice.

A Model for Study of Soviet Foreign Policy

1958 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan F. Triska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Observed Behavior

Soviet foreign policy has been a subject of extensive and intensive study ever since the painful birth of the Soviet state. All the writings and investigations, except for the purely descriptive, are based in some degree on one or several key premises and assumptions of authors who used them to explain and interpret Soviet foreign policy. This is understandable and probably inevitable in view of the enormous significance of the subject matter, the vastness of observed behavior in time and in space, and the lack of available information on policy making. Consequently, scientific, intuitive, and even merely hopeful thinking has been applied to the evidences of Soviet foreign policy in an effort to find a method of analysis, a frame of reference, a tool of orientation which might permit some systematization of the whole subject.Clearly, a single seemingly well-constructed theory of Soviet foreign policy which purports to offer a key to broad analysis is too attractive for an analyst to ignore. But however plausible it may seem, it cannot possibly offer the whole answer. Some elements of Soviet foreign policy may be isolated, focalized, dissected, and examined, but others cannot be subject to even speculative, crude estimates.

Enhancing Safety in the Security and Alarm Monitoring Industry: A Case Study in the Development of Job Hazard Analyses

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1671-1675
Author(s):  
Polly A. College ◽  
Ellen J. Bass
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Large Company ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Adherence Data

Job hazard analysis is a process of identifying potential hazards for each task within an activity and enacting safety rules to eliminate or control the hazards. No studies have been published regarding their use in the security industry. Technicians working in the industry face safety challenges due to the hazards inherent in their work environments and the tasks they need to achieve. Technicians who install and service such systems for a large company in the industry were provided with a “safety bundle” of information and tools to help them avoid hazards. An observation of technicians at four locations identified a lack of adherence to this safety bundle. Subject matter experts were presented with the lack of adherence data. They also developed use cases to support identifying additional content to help technicians with a job hazard analysis approach. The content will be added to the safety bundle and evaluated.

THE CHANGING OF SANTRI’s PREFERENCE TOWARDS STUDIES AND PROFESSIONS: A Case Study at Pondok Pesantren Alhikmah 2 Brebes, Central Java

Al-Qalam ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayyadin Ode
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Religious Subject

<p>This research aimed to figure out the santri’s preference toward studies and professions in which conduct study at pesantren. Common perceived and stated also at Government Ordinancenumber 55, 2007, that pesantren purposes was to reproduce Islamic scholar (ulama). However, through this study, it proved that not all santri wanted to be ulama, most of them wanted to be a scientist. This study was a case study, conducted in 2015 at Pesantren Alhikmah2 Brebes. Data collected using questionnaire, interview, and document. Those all derived from santris, Kyais, and teachers (asatidz). The research concluded as showed from questionnaire that santri’s  preferences toward study has gotten  changing to general subject matters instead of religious subject matters; and the santri’s professions and jobspreference has gotten changing to the jobs and professions that based on general subject matter, instead of choose to be ulama (Islamic scholar) most of santri wanted to be scientists, or researchers, or doctors as well as athlete.</p>

Developing the Persian Wordnet of Verbs Using Supervised Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Zahra Mousavi ◽  
Heshaam Faili
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Word Sense ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Bilingual Dictionary ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Princeton Wordnet

Nowadays, wordnets are extensively used as a major resource in natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. Therefore, the accuracy of wordnets has a direct influence on the performance of the involved applications. This paper presents a fully-automated method for extending a previously developed Persian wordnet to cover more comprehensive and accurate verbal entries. At first, by using a bilingual dictionary, some Persian verbs are linked to Princeton WordNet synsets. A feature set related to the semantic behavior of compound verbs as the majority of Persian verbs is proposed. This feature set is employed in a supervised classification system to select the proper links for inclusion in the wordnet. We also benefit from a pre-existing Persian wordnet, FarsNet, and a similarity-based method to produce a training set. This is the largest automatically developed Persian wordnet with more than 27,000 words, 28,000 PWN synsets and 67,000 word-sense pairs that substantially outperforms the previous Persian wordnet with about 16,000 words, 22,000 PWN synsets and 38,000 word-sense pairs.

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