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
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