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The Hindu Method to Save the Planet (open access)

The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

This paper discusses the Hindu religion and elements of ecology that relate to this religion. It describes some of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and describes how these are important spiritually and ecologically.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation (open access)

Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources (open access)

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Carlson, Steve; Cheatham, Dennis; Gorby, Megan; Leach, Matt; McAllister, Guenivere et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources (open access)

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Antonovic, Annette; Buete, Sherri; Deardorff, Philip; DoCarmo, Tania; Gutierrez, Paula et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (open access)

Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This study examines mental illness in literature, with a focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar', the primary texts of the research, and develops similarities and personal connections between the authors and their mentally unstable main characters.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Flowers, Theresa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rebuilding the World with Green BRICs (open access)

Rebuilding the World with Green BRICs

This paper discusses social, economic, and global issues and research on rebuilding the world with green, energy-efficient strategies for Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC).
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Hubby, Desiree & Engen, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Guardianship on the Rights of Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study (open access)

The Impact of Guardianship on the Rights of Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study

This paper discusses a research study on the impact of guardianship on the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Smith, Martin & Olness, Gloria Streit
System: The UNT Digital Library
Read to Succeed (open access)

Read to Succeed

This paper discusses research on reading and a study on transition times in the classroom.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Daniel, Monica & Tunks, Jeanne L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
African American Parental Involvement (open access)

African American Parental Involvement

This paper discusses a research project on the relationship between African American parent volunteer involvement and student reading scores.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Brookshire, Nikki & Tunks, Jeanne L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of Growth Plans in Kindergarten Classrooms (open access)

Effectiveness of Growth Plans in Kindergarten Classrooms

This paper discusses research on the effectiveness of growth plans in kindergarten classrooms.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Leslie, Rachel & Tunks, Jeanne L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness (open access)

Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness

This paper discusses research in assessment guided instruction.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Western, Vanessa S. & Tunks, Jeanne L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project (open access)

Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project

This paper discusses applying user-centered design principles to redesign The Portal to Texas History, as part of the IOGENE project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar (open access)

Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar

This paper shows results from an investigation whether a classifier can be taught to identify these constructions and consideration of the hypothesis that identifying construction types can improve the semantic interpretation of previously unseen predicate uses.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Hwang, Jena D.; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access? (open access)

What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access?

This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This paper and the accompanying poster discuss what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive (open access)

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD as it relates to The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better? (open access)

Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better?

This paper discusses multilingual subjectivity.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Banea, Carmen; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Wiebe, Janyce M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More (open access)

To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More

This paper demonstrates that the greatest value for annotation lies in single annotating more data.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Dligach, Dmitriy; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas (open access)

Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas

Paper on how metadata supports the cycle of system improvements at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging (open access)

Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging

This paper introduces several extractive approaches for automatic image tagging, relying exclusively on information mined from texts. Through evaluations on two datasets, the authors show that their methods exceed competitive baselines by a large margin, and compare favorably with the state-of-the-art that uses both textual and image features.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Leong, Chee Wee; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Hassan, Samer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation (open access)

Amazon Mechanical Turk for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation

In this paper, the authors discuss research on whether they can use Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to acquire good annotations with respect to gold-standard data, whether they can filter out low-quality workers (spammers), and whether there is a learning effect associated with repeatedly completing the same kind of task.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Akkaya, Cem; Conrad, Alexander; Wiebe, Janyce M. & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains (open access)

Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains

This paper analyzes the topic identification stage of single-document automatic text summarization across four different domains, consisting of newswire, literary, scientific and legal documents.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Ceylan, Hakan; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Ozertem, Umut; Lloret, Elena & Palomar, Manuel
System: The UNT Digital Library
SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution (open access)

SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution

This article describes the SemEval-2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Sinha, Ravi & McCarthy, Diana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Models for Incongruity Detection in Humour (open access)

Computational Models for Incongruity Detection in Humour

In this paper, the authors explore several computational models for incongruity resolution.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Strapparava, Carlo, 1962- & Pulman, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images (open access)

UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images

This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Ruiz, Miguel E.; Chen, Jiangping; Pasupathy, Karthikeyan; Chin, Pok & Knudson, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library