E-learning continues to be used as an educational tool all over the world. However, the typical e-learning systems are sometimes not enough for students to feel a close connection ...
Hideyuki Kanematsu, Yoshimi Fukumura, Dana M. Barr...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically detect "hot" or important topics of discussion in the blogosphere. The proposed approach is based on analyzing...
Shamanth Kumar, Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi...
Mining sentiment from user generated content is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. An example of such content is threaded discussions which act as a very import...
We investigate the impact of a discussion snippet’s overall sentiment on a user’s willingness to read more of a discussion. Using sentiment analysis, we constructed positive, ...
Hyung-il Ahn, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, David R. ...
The jigsaw method empowers students to build their own knowledge through successive engagement through interactions in original group discussions and in expert group discussions. H...
act state machines. (To make that discussion self-contained, we include a summary of this material before the modifications.) Fortunately, only rather minor modifications are neede...
Although there are high expectations for collaborative discussion and on-line learning, existing systems for on-line discussion and chat facilities are not fully effective in prom...
Annotation-based discussions are an important concept for today's digital libraries and those of the future, containing additional information to and about the content managed...
This paper describes user modelling in I-Help, a system to facilitate communication amongst learners. There are two I-Help components: Private and Public Discussions. In the Privat...
Susan Bull, Jim E. Greer, Gordon I. McCalla, Lori ...