Language

Strategies for Increasing Findabilitiy of Language Data

Poster discussing practical methods for ensuring the quality of descriptive metadata associated with linguistic datasets in language archive deposits. Digital language archives are valuable tools for facilitating language revitalization, providing data on lesser-known languages, and supporting reproducibility of research and development of linguistic theory, though their potential remains unrealized as the data available in language archives are rarely accessed by linguists or language communities. Reasons for this under-utilization are the issues with data standardization and metadata quality. Including basic grammatical and typological information would allow wider audiences to reach the material.
Date: January 4, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cross-Language Comparison of Mismatched Annotation in Interlinear-Glossed Texts

This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying analytic thinking of the annotator to reexamine and improve analyses.
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis (open access)

Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis

Article on the interplay over time among mobile computing, commerce and applications. The study performed is a co-word analysis for a corpus of 4821 SCI/SSCI indexed papers related to mobility in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1995 to 2013. The emerging concepts demonstrated in the strategic diagrams and the associated co-word structures have implications for future research.
Date: 2015
Creator: Chang, Hsia-Ching & Wang, Chen-Ya
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries (open access)

Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries

This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
Date: December 31, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of glide path and pathfiles in canal preparation by cone-beam computed tomography: An original research (open access)

Comparison of glide path and pathfiles in canal preparation by cone-beam computed tomography: An original research

This article is a study describing the canal transportation of the different file systems in various combinations of the “Glide path (Gp)” by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Uppalapati, Vishwaja; Chhaparwal, Amit; Ahmed, Siddiq; Shariff, Suhail; Pallewar, Abhijit Mallesham; Mustafa, Mohammed et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation (open access)

Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Correction to article changes the name of one of the authors.
Date: December 19, 2022
Creator: Bayoues, Walid; Saâdi, Ines Bayoudh & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arabian Gulf Countries: A Case Study of Alqabas Archive

Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.
Date: December 4, 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India (open access)

Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive (open access)

Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive

Article describing a pilot project undertaken at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) which explores a collaborative archiving approach to enable language community members to tell their own stories by adding contextual information to archival materials. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identifying Challenges for Information Organization in Language Archives: Preliminary Findings

Conference paper elucidates the issues facing language archive managers and users through two steps: content analysis of information organization in language archives, and semi-structured interviews with language archive managers and users. Primary challenges identified include lacking institutional support and a range of factors which impact authority control in language archives. This version is the author's accepted manuscript.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL (open access)

Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL

Article on the development of a workflow process that can accommodate the range of different language depositors in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive (open access)

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 21, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata (open access)

Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Paper addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training (open access)

Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training

This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Date: June 21, 2019
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting interdisciplinary semantic drift for knowledge organization based on normal cloud model (open access)

Detecting interdisciplinary semantic drift for knowledge organization based on normal cloud model

Article describes how, to reduce the conceptual ambiguity in interdisciplinary knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and enhance interdisciplinary KOS management, this paper proposes a framework for interdisciplinary semantic drift (ISD) detection based on the normal cloud model (NCM). The research indicates the meaning of an interdisciplinary concept will drift from the high KPE discipline to the low KPE discipline as long as interdisciplinary knowledge potential differences (KPD) exist between these two related disciplines.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Wang, Zhongyi; Peng, Siyuan; Chen, Jiangping; Kapasule, Amoni G. & Chen, Haihua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization (open access)

Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization

This article investigates how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years.
Date: September 11, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Hui; Wang, Yongyi; Wu, Dan & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma (open access)

Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma

This article proposes a method to model evacuation flows and reveal the patterns of evacuation flows at different spatial scales. First, the authors present a method to characterize evacuation flows at different geographic scales: the state level, considering evacuation flows across southern states affected by Irma; the urban/rural area level, and the county level. Then they demonstrate results on the predictability of evacuation flows in the most affected state, Florida, by using the following environmental factors: the destructive force of the hurricane, the socioeconomic context, and the evacuation policy issued for counties. The results presented in this paper can help decision makers to better understand population evacuation behaviors given certain environmental features, which in turn will aid in the design of efficient and informed preparedness and response strategies.
Date: September 29, 2020
Creator: Hong, Lingzi & Frias-Martinez, Vanessa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace (open access)

Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace

This study reveals the impact of learning through technology in the English language.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Sasi, Sabri; Chang, Maiga; Altinay-Aksal, Fahriye; Kayimbasioglu, Dervis; Haci, Huseyin; Kinshuk et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look (open access)

Security and Privacy Issues with Smart Thermostats – A First Look

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper uses the Brenda Dervin sense making model to explain human behavior and way of reasoning with making purchasing decisions of smart thermostats.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Awojobi, Abiodun & Chang, Hsia-Ching
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Use of Twitter as a Tool to Predict Opinion Leaders that Influence Public Opinion: Case study of the 2016 United States Presidential Elections

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses the use of Twitter as a tool to predict the opinion leaders that influence the general users in relation to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Alfarhoud, Yousef
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identity Management Analysis: An Empirical Investigation into the State of Library Community's Authority Data Conformance to the New Standard

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation presents some results of a content analysis study that explores the state of implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard in authority records.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Zavalin, Vyacheslav
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knowledge Creation and Information Sharing through Open Education Resources (open access)

Knowledge Creation and Information Sharing through Open Education Resources

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper proposes a taxonomy for open education resources.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Du, Yunfei
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era (open access)

Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era

Paper presented for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This paper discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
Date: February 12, 2018
Creator: King, Samantha; Boyedoe, Howard; Chacon, Andrea; Hall, Molli; Krizansky, Maria; O'Bryant, Kathleen et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library