Poster of SAA student chapter presented at SAA annual meeting, San Francisco, August 2008.

Communication on social channels such as social media websites, email, forums, and groups; follows an inherent temporal network structure. Herein, each communication e.g. a post, occurs at a specific point in time, which ...

The paper gives an overview of some of the museum-like activities currently being undertaken in Second Life. Current development is mainly in the hands of pioneers, often interested amateurs engaging in serious leisure to ...

Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is one of the major topics in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. This paper will provide a complete process of sentiment analysis from data gathering and data preparation ...

Available sentiment classifiers typically describe statements as either positive or negative. While helpful for consumer products or marketing initiatives, this sort of binary classification is limiting for other types of ...

The poster was a collaborative effort of the three authors to celebrate and document the critical history of the Library and Information Science Library at the University of Illinois.

Speculative Realism is a contemporary philosophical movement taking its name from a 2007 conference held at Goldsmiths College in London, England. Speculative Realism is difficult to define: like the hodgepodge of divergent ...

Studying global conflict and cooperation between countries, can help us in understanding the evolution of their relationship overtime. In this work we use data from the GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) ...

The description of methods used in producing data is essential information generally expected by scientists in reviewing and assessing the quality of data for reuse (Faniel & Jacobsen, 2010; Zimmerman, 2008). Given the ...

Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) algorithm – identifying a text string as a taxonomic name or not and recognizing the boundaries of the name – is very important in BHL digitization project in determining whether the ...