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An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America

This paper presents results of an exploratory, quantitative analysis regarding the application of a free-text Description metadata element and data values associated with this element within aggregated metadata harvested from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: October 14, 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives (open access)

Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States (open access)

Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States

This paper from the International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings investigates the factors influencing with the Knowledge Management use process in Information Technology enterprises in the Southern United States.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
System: The UNT Digital Library
White Paper: University of North Texas, Information Fluency Initiative (open access)

White Paper: University of North Texas, Information Fluency Initiative

Paper discussing a proposal for an information fluency initiative at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Hardin, Gregory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harnessing Social Media for Promoting Tourism in Africa:  An Exploratory Analysis of Tweets (open access)

Harnessing Social Media for Promoting Tourism in Africa: An Exploratory Analysis of Tweets

This paper investigates the nature of tweets about African cultural heritage and potential strategies for tourism stakeholders.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Assefa, Shimelis & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study (open access)

Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study

This paper details the process of developing the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines for approval from the IFLA Governing board, with a discussion of challenges and lessons learned during this undertaking.
Date: April 7, 2016
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory Analysis of Born-Digital Newspaper Content (open access)

Exploratory Analysis of Born-Digital Newspaper Content

This paper reports on exploratory investigations by the Texas Digital Newspaper Program to understand aggregate patterns in the generation of born-digital news editions by analyzing technical metadata extracted from the 3 million pages currently in the preservation collection.
Date: October 31, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit (open access)

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements (open access)

Automatic Generation and Scoring of Positive Interpretations from Negated Statements

This paper presents a methodology to extract positive interpretations from negated statements.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Blanco, Eduardo & Sarabi, Zahra
System: The UNT Digital Library
More comprehensive forensic genetic marker analyses for accurate human remains identification using massively parallel DNA sequencing (open access)

More comprehensive forensic genetic marker analyses for accurate human remains identification using massively parallel DNA sequencing

This paper uses massively parallel sequencing (MPS) to characterize 140-year-old human skeletal remains discovered at a historical site in Deadwood, South Dakota, United States.
Date: October 17, 2016
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Churchill, Jennifer D.; King, Jonathan L.; Stoljarova, Monika; Gill-King, Harrell; Assidi, Mourad et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long (open access)

Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long

This paper complements semantic role representations with spatial knowledge beyond indicating plain locations.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Vempala, Alakananda & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions (open access)

Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions

This paper presents an approach to extract implicit interpretations from modal constructions.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sanders, Jordan & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies (open access)

Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies

This paper presents a two-step procedure to extract positive meaning from verbal negation.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation (open access)

Infusing NLU into Automatic Question Generation

This paper presents an approach to automatic question generation that significantly increases the percentage of acceptable questions compared to prior state-of-the-art systems.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Mazidi, Karen & Tarau, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation (open access)

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes (open access)

Testing rare variants for hypertension using family-based tests with different weighting schemes

This paper proposes 4 weighting schemes for the family-based rare variants test (FBAT-v) to test for the effects of both rare and common variants across the genome.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Zhao, Xingwang & Zhou, Jin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees (open access)

A novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees

In this paper, the authors discuss a novel statistical method for rare-variant association studies in general pedigrees for quantitative traits. This method uses a retrospective view that treats the traits as fixed and the genotypes as random, which accounts for complex and undefined ascertainment of families.
Date: October 18, 2016
Creator: Zhu, Huanhuan; Wang, Zhenchuan; Wang, Xuexia & Sha, Qiuying
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems (open access)

Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems

This paper introduces a new representation of sentences--Minimal Meaningful Propositions (MMPS), which allows significant improvement of the mapping between a learner's answer and the ideal response.
Date: December 2016
Creator: Godea, Andreea; Bulgarov, Florin & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network (open access)

Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network

This paper applies a deep long-short term memory (LSTM) structure to classify dialogue acts in open-domain conversations.
Date: December 2016
Creator: Khanpour, Hamed; Guntakandla, Nishitha & Nielsen, Rodney D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Decentering Scoring Challenges and Their Resolution for Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis Data 11/25/2016 (open access)

Interpersonal Decentering Scoring Challenges and Their Resolution for Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis Data 11/25/2016

Paper outlining challenges and resolutions to maintain interscorer reliability. This work supported Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis.
Date: November 25, 2016
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Adams, Emily; Coleman, James; Cox, Shannon; Dziurzynski, Kristan; Jos, Jibin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library