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Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History (open access)

Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History

This paper discusses the research findings of a user experience project directly related to how people interact with newspapers on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network (open access)

Impact of Mobility on Convergence Rate in a Wireless Sensor Network

This paper shows that introducing mobility increases the rate of convergence in partially connected and disconnected wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: Norouzi Kandalan, Roya; Singh, Ramanpreet; Namuduri, Kamesh; Varanasi, Murali R. & Buckles, Bill
System: The UNT Digital Library
If No Media Were Allowed inside the Venue, Was Anybody Allowed? (open access)

If No Media Were Allowed inside the Venue, Was Anybody Allowed?

This paper presents a framework to understand negation in positive terms.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anthropometric data collection of Portuguese children using 3D body scanning: considerations about the scanning booth (open access)

Anthropometric data collection of Portuguese children using 3D body scanning: considerations about the scanning booth

Presented at the 2017 World Textile Conference. This paper presents some considerations regarding the scanning booth used in an anthropometric study done with a 3D body scanning technology.
Date: May 2017
Creator: de Campos, R.; Carvalho, M. A.; Lopes, H. P. & Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anthropometry for Children's Clothing: Difficulties and Limitations (open access)

Anthropometry for Children's Clothing: Difficulties and Limitations

Presented at the 2017 World Textile Conference. This paper reports the difficulties and limitations experienced during data collection of the anthropometric study and the adjustments that were needed.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Bezerra, G.; Carvalho, M. A.; Rocha, M. A. V. & Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sizing for the apparel industry using statistical analysis - a Brazilian case study (open access)

Sizing for the apparel industry using statistical analysis - a Brazilian case study

Presented at the 2017 World Textile Conference. This paper presents results from a study of the body measurements of Brazilian women using the Kinect Body Imaging system for 3D body scanning to understand the need for accurate measurements in the apparel industry.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Capelassi, C. H.; Carvalho, M. A.; Kattel, C. El & Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Translation Quality (open access)

A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating Translation Quality

This paper explores the possibility of applying Machine Learning for Machine Translation evaluation.
Date: June 20, 2017
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda & Chen, Jiangping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library (open access)

Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library

This paper was presented at the 2017 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. This paper contains a summary of the study to discern what students learned from a library and information science service learning study abroad program to Russia in 2012.
Date: June 21, 2017
Creator: Walczyk, Christine & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail (open access)

A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail

This paper examines the types of insecticides that have been used in the United States, how quail could be exposed to these substances, and how they may have contributed to declining quail populations.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Gobeli, Amanda; Thompson, Caitlin & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Conservation Research: A Call for Large-Scale Studies (open access)

An Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Conservation Research: A Call for Large-Scale Studies

This paper reviews current and historical studies that have facilitated the implementation of management techniques on multiple scales.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Gomez, Lex J. & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Semiarid Rangeland Using LANDSAT Imagery (open access)

Predicting Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Semiarid Rangeland Using LANDSAT Imagery

This paper discusses a classification on 4 LANDSAT scenes of Clay County, Texas, from July and December 2015 to identify bobwhite habitat in subhumid and semiarid rangeland.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Whitt, Jeffrey G. & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index (open access)

Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index

This paper discusses volunteer retention and efficacy for the Texas Quail Index.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Rollins, Dale
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis (open access)

Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis

This paper includes a review and recommendation by the National Bobwhite Technical Committee Science Subcommittee, along with a discussion of the state of science on key aspects of bobwhite conservation, best management practices for translocation, and ways to reduce uncertainty about implementation.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, James A.; Applegate, Roger D.; Dailey, Thomas V.; Downey, Michelle; Emmerich, Beth; Hernández, Fidel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations (open access)

Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis; Robinson, Melissa & Phillips, Kristy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata (open access)

Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata

This paper describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.
Date: August 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Chen, Jiangping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data (open access)

Finding Patterns in Noisy Crowds: Regression-based Annotation Aggregation for Crowdsourced Data

This paper presents an aggregation approach that learns a regression model from crowdsourced annotations to predict aggregated labels for instances that have no expert adjudications.
Date: September 2017
Creator: Nielsen, Rodney D. & Parde, Natalie
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Cooperative Model for Preserving Historical Television News Context (open access)

A Cooperative Model for Preserving Historical Television News Context

This paper was presented at the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress News Media Satellite Meeting on News, new roles & preservation advocacy: moving libraries into action. This paper provides and overview of the partnership between the University of North Texas and the Dallas/Forth Worth affiliate station of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC 5/KXAS) to preserve the content of the oldest television news station in Texas, including discussions of copyright, funding, and access to audio/visual collections.
Date: September 18, 2017
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Challenges Of Implementing  A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education (open access)

The Challenges Of Implementing A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper examines the challenges of data managements and use in K-12 education through the technical, knowledge, application, climate and cultural aspects.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Jim, Cary K. & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices (open access)

Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library
From user reviews to theory building: an inductive approach to construct identification using text mining (open access)

From user reviews to theory building: an inductive approach to construct identification using text mining

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper demonstrates the utility of text analytic for theory building and validation in information science.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Nguyen, Quynh & Sidorova, Anna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies (open access)

Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses the roles of learning analytics and learning management systems in instructional design.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: McCauley, Kelley & Lin, Lin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing Project Teams with Artificial Intelligence (open access)

Managing Project Teams with Artificial Intelligence

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper explores the use of artificial intelligence in business to improve organizational effectiveness.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Floyd, Schenita A.
System: The UNT Digital Library