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Chapter and Conference Paper
Impostor GAN: Toward Modeling Social Media User Impersonation with Generative Adversarial Networks
The problem of “fake accounts” on social media has gained a lot of attention recently because of the role they play in generating/propagating misinformation, manipulating opinions and interfering with election...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Machine Learning and Student Performance in Teams
This project applies a variety of machine learning algorithms to the interactions of first year college students using the GroupMe messaging platform to collaborate online on a team project. The project assess...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improved Asynchronous Energy Saving Mechanism with Mesh-Based Routing for Digital Media Over IEEE 802.15.5-Based Mesh Networks
Energy-efficient data delivery is important for digital media applications based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The asynchronous energy saving (ASES) scheme introduced in IEEE 802.15.5 standard, which su...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Reliable Is Sentiment Analysis? A Multi-domain Empirical Investigation
Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining) is frequently used in monitoring public opinions on the internet. For example, it can help marketers evaluate the success of an ad campaign. It can also be use...
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Incorporating Ethnic and Folk Culture into Artistic Education a Case Study of the Embroidery of the Miao Ethnic Community
As a key component of Chinese cultural tradition, Ethnic and folk culture proves the hotbed that nourishes the national spirit. The embroidery of the Miao ethnic community (“Miao embroidery” for short) exempli...
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Early Use of Statin in Patients Treated with Alteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke
Studies have reported that statin usage before stroke can increase the incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage after thrombolytic treatment. However, whether the administration of statin at an early stage of isc...
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Map** Multi-hazard Risk of the World
Multi-hazard risk assessment aims at assessing the total risk of various types of hazards happened in an area in a certain period of time. In this study, the Total Risk Index (TRI) and Multi-hazard Risk Index ...
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Map** Environments and Exposures of the World
Disaster system, a dynamic system on the earth’s surface with complex characteristics, is composed of natural hazards, exposures, environments and disaster losses. Disaster losses and damages are consequences ...
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Map** Volcano Risk of the World
Volcanic risk has long been a big threat to human lives. Analyzing global volcano disaster risk can provide a better understanding of its spatial pattern and hot spots. This study quantitatively maps the mort...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analytic Trails: Supporting Provenance, Collaboration, and Reuse for Visual Data Analysis by Business Users
In this paper, we discuss the use of analytic trails to support the needs of business users when conducting visual data analysis, focusing particularly on the aspects of analytic provenance, asynchronous colla...
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Mind: A Context-Based Multimodal Interpretation Framework in Conversational Systems
In a multimodal human-machine conversation, user inputs are often abbreviated or imprecise. Simply fusing multimodal inputs together may not be sufficient to derive a complete understanding of the inputs. Aimi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-Based Surface Natural Language Generator
This paper presents Segue, a hybrid surface natural language generator that employs case-based paradigm but performs rule-based adaptations. It uses an annotated corpus as its knowledge source and employs grammat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Empirically Evaluating an Adaptable Spoken Dialogue System
Recent technological advances have made it possible to build real-time, interactive spoken dialogue systems for a wide variety of applications. However, when users do not respect the limitations of such system...
