A Bridge to the Workplace

2011 ◽  
pp. 180-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Freiermuth
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Japanese Students ◽  
Online Simulation ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Simulation Problem ◽  
The Web

In this chapter, we examine the ways in which the Internet was used to run a case study-based, decision-making simulation in an academic writing class of 26 Japanese students studying English at a computer science university. The students had to construct an online glossary aimed at building sufficient background knowledge related to the simulation and then, in teams, create online documents demonstrating an understanding of the simulation problem and offer potential solutions. Information was delivered to students via the Web, and all documents produced by students were posted to their homepages. Assessment and observation revealed that the objectives of the simulation were achieved and that students were quite motivated throughout the simulation because they were able to make connections between the simulation activities and their chosen career. It is hoped that this study will act as an impetus for additional online simulation experiments in academia, business, and government.

Using NLP for Fact Checking: A Survey

Designs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Eric Lazarski ◽  
Mahmood Al-Khassaweneh ◽  
Cynthia Howard
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Powered ◽  
The Web

In recent years, disinformation and “fake news” have been spreading throughout the internet at rates never seen before. This has created the need for fact-checking organizations, groups that seek out claims and comment on their veracity, to spawn worldwide to stem the tide of misinformation. However, even with the many human-powered fact-checking organizations that are currently in operation, disinformation continues to run rampant throughout the Web, and the existing organizations are unable to keep up. This paper discusses in detail recent advances in computer science to use natural language processing to automate fact checking. It follows the entire process of automated fact checking using natural language processing, from detecting claims to fact checking to outputting results. In summary, automated fact checking works well in some cases, though generalized fact checking still needs improvement prior to widespread use.

The Internet, Political Participation and Election Turnout: A Case Study of Germany's www.abgeordnetenwatch.de

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartwig Pautz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Decision Making

Germany's parliamentary democracy appears to be in crisis. The major parties' membership is in decline and barely existing in East Germany, election turnout is decreasing at all levels, and the reputation of politicians has never been worse. At the same time, however, Germans are more interested in politics than in the 1990s, overwhelmingly support democracy, and are keen on participating particularly in local political decision making. Out of this situation emerged www.abgeordnetenwatch.de— a website that aims to re-establish the link between electors and elected by allowing voters and representatives to communicate via a publicly accessible question-andanswer structure. This article addresses the questions of whether such an instrument can revitalize representative democracy and whether it has done so in the context of the 2009 federal elections.

A Methodology for Integrating Information Technology in Software Engineering Education

2009 ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Software Engineering Education ◽  
Science And Engineering Education ◽  
The Web

The discipline of software engineering has been gaining increasing significance in computer science and engineering education. In this chapter, the goal is to describe a systematic approach toward integrating information technologies in software engineering education (SEE), both inside and outside the classroom. A methodology for integrating IT is proposed and explored in the context of SEE, particularly related to the Internet and the Web; in this context, SEE supports a heterogeneous combination of objectivism and constructivism, and aims to be feasibility sensitive. In doing so, the prospects and concerns of incorporating IT in SEE are presented. The potential of integrating IT in SEE is illustrated by examples.

scholarly journals WWW support of student learning: A case study

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Greening
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Year ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Constructivist Position ◽  
The Web

<span>The World Wide Web (WWW) is achieving a place of prominence in educational practice. However, the benefits of using the Web to support learning are not always apparent. The most prominent public feature of the Internet is the multitude of possibilities that it presents for information retrieval. This is widely believed to offer educational advantage, although the means by which that advantage are realised are typically not well specified. The paper discusses the role of information retrieval opportunities presented by the Internet, and suggests that it requires a new model of information access best supported by a reconsideration of educational philosophy. The constructivist position is favoured. The paper also discusses issues in using the Internet to deliver courses, arguing that the delivery model does not take full advantage of the new possibilities offered by the technology. It then presents a case study of the use of the Web in a first year computer science course, offered in a Problem Based Learning (PBL) mode. The focus is on the appropriate use of the technology as a pedagogical tool in higher education. In the case of a curriculum clearly founded on constructivist principles an important factor in the appropriateness of the supporting technology was that it did not encourage staff and students to adopt more familiar, instructivist patterns of behaviour. In this sense, the role of the Internet within the curriculum needed to be different to those roles that currently tend to typify it.</span>

scholarly journals Key milestones of infographics evolution in cartography

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Jakub Konicek
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Scientific Attention ◽  
Extended View ◽  
The Web

Abstract. Infographic is a popular term which resonates quite significantly in the world of the Internet for a long time. It became a very often used phrase not only in various forums, blogs, and websites, but also turned into a part of the scientific research presentation and later as a field of study in (not only) cartographic visualization as well. Either, the cartography is no exception. Many cartographers practically used this term and its generally known principles. Nevertheless, principles and its well-known essence are not officially and uniformly defined yet.The paper aims to present the evolution of infographics in time and its intersection and the usage focusing on cartography. The main aim is to figure out trends and milestones which are noticeable from the gradual evolution of infographics. The interests and activities of the professional scientific groups of the International Cartographic Association, as well as the thematic focus of the papers at the annual international conferences, confirm the growing popularity of the professional public.The case study figures out, through practical examples, when infographic has become a valuable part of cartographic creation and subject of study in cartographic research. Based on the available literature, professionally oriented forums and thematically focused articles at the Web of Science, the paper seeks to show an extended view of infographics. According to trendsetters, it is a popular design concept, nevertheless, it is still not given significant scientific attention from a professional point of view.The motivation for this research is to compile an evolution timeline of infographics, describe significant trends and define key milestones influencing its development, especially in the field of practical usage in cartography.

scholarly journals The Digital Political Communication of South Korean Politicians

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Heike Hermanns
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Web Presence ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Web

The internet and social media have been credited with the potential to reinvigorate democracy by offering new avenues of political participation and communication between citi-zens and politicians. The results of empirical studies, however, call for caution, as many politi-cians refrain from fully exploring the interactive potential of new media. This case study focus-es on the web presence of Korean parliamentarians, using basic statistical analyses to explore the use of ICT as a means of political communication. It finds that Korean parliamentarians are less active online, treating ICT mainly as another channel for information distribution. It is thus concluded that ICT is not revolutionizing politics but reinforcing existing patterns of communi-cation that leave a gap between citizens and representatives. This paper was previously submit-ted to CeDem Asia 2016. The literature review and the methodology section have been expand-ed, and additional statistical data as well as further findings on Twitter were added.

Has the Web Really Contributed to a Decline in the Scholarly Quality of Undergraduate Citation Behaviour?: A Canadian Case Study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Robinson ◽  
Karen Schlegl
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Canadian Politics ◽  
Citation Behaviour ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

This paper reports on a pilot study designed to further and expand upon the work of Philip M. Davis and Suzanne A. Cohen at Cornell University. It attempts to determine whether student's increasing reliance on the Internet is actually affecting the quality of their research by conducting bibliometric analysis of papers submitted by Canadian politics students at the University of Regina. . .

Implementing Geospatial Web Services for Cloud Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 287-308
Author(s):  
Gobe Hobona ◽  
Mike Jackson ◽  
Suchith Anand
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Open Geospatial Consortium ◽  
Geospatial Web Services ◽  
Processing Service ◽  
The Web

Cloud computing is concerned with the provision of hardware, infrastructure, software and data as services on the internet. A key attraction of cloud computing is that the infrastructure from which services are offered is able to scale upwards automatically as the load on the services increases. This chapter examines the potential for offering capabilities of the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) as a service within a compute cloud. GRASS is a free and open source desktop Geographic Information System (GIS). The chapter describes a prototype service that adopts the Web Processing Service (WPS) standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). A case study is presented applying the prototype in the analysis of satellite imagery. The chapter concludes that the WPS standard can facilitate the provision of geospatial capability in compute clouds.

scholarly journals How to use opinion leaders to optimize a marketing campaign - A case study on YouTube

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nissim Tarrab ◽  
Jose Manuel Bejar Brenes ◽  
Taly Gabay
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Marketing Campaign ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Web

The study analyzes product consumption in the gamer’s community and the influence of opinion leaders on the web, specifically on YouTube videos. Researchers looked for the level of influence YouTube videos could have on the consumption behaviors of customers. There will be a profound analysis on opinion leaders and how we can use them to create marketing campaigns by understanding people's behavior online. People leave on the web many traces about their desires and the research aims to make a pattern to understand human mind decision making when buying a product. Consequently, there was found medium and positive relationship deeply detailed beneath.

scholarly journals Opinion Mining for the Customer Feedback using TextBlob

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Praveen Gujjar J ◽  
Prasanna Kumar H R
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Customer Feedback ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
The Web ◽  
Natural Language Processing Task

Evolution in the field of web technology has made an enormous amount of data available in the web for the internet users. These internet users give their useful feedback, comments, suggestion or opinion for the available product or service in the web. User generated data are very essential to analyze for business decision making. TextBlob is one of the simple API offered by python library to perform certain natural language processing task. This paper proposed a method for analyzing the opinion of the customer using TextBlob to understand the customer opinion for decision making. This paper, provide a result for aforesaid data using TextBlob API using python. The paper includes advantages of the proposed technique and concludes with the challenges for the marketers when using this technique in their decision-making.

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