We have developed a method to identify when a student essay is off-topic, i.e. the essay does not respond to the test question topic. This task is motivated by a real-world problem...
The regulative and semantic `distance' of electronic conferencing may impede the topical alignment and the unambiguous interpretation of messages, hindering collaborative lear...
Abstract-- In this work, we focus on a class of nonlinear asynchronous systems defined by two different modes of operation, one stable and the other one unstable. The switching bet...
The Pediatric Pain Mailing List (PPML) is an international Internet-based forum for informal discussion of any topic related to pain in children. There are now over seven hundred ...
Qiufen Qi, Qigang Gao, Michael A. Shepherd, G. All...
As the amount of textual information grows explosively in various kinds of business systems, it becomes more and more desirable to analyze both structured data records and unstruc...