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On The Thresholding Strategy For Infrequent Labels In Multi-Label Classification, Yu Jen Lin, Chih Jen Lin

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In multi-label classification, the imbalance between labels is often a concern. For a label that seldom occurs, the default threshold used to generate binarized predictions of that label is usually sub-optimal. However, directly tuning the threshold to optimize F-measure has been observed to overfit easily. In this work, we explain why this overfitting occurs. Then, we analyze the FBR heuristic, a previous technique proposed to address the overfitting issue. We explain its success but also point out some problems unobserved before. Then, we first propose a variant of the FBR heuristic that not only fixes the problems but is also …

Organizational Information Systems (Is) Strategy, It Governance, And Firm Performance: Two Essays On How It Firms Utilize The Roles Of Is Strategy And It Governance To Improve Firm Performance, Xiaqing He

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations

This dissertation includes two essays. For essay one, we investigate the implications of organizational wireless and mobile strategy on firm performance in the context of publicly traded information technology firms in the United States. A research model is developed to examine the roles of information technology investment and chief information officer compensation in moderating the relationship between wireless and mobile strategy and firm performance. Topic modeling techniques and ordinary least squares regression are employed to analyze the data. The results support the positive effects of wireless and mobile strategy on firm performance. Additionally, chief information officer compensation is found to …

Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Using Convolutional Neural Network: State-Of-The-Art Methods, Yingna Zhong, Kauthar Mohd Daud, Ain Najiha Binti Mohamad Nor, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, Kohbalan Moorthy

All Works

Given the presence of handwritten documents in human transactions, including email sorting, bank checks, and automating procedures, handwritten characters recognition (HCR) of documents has been invaluable to society. Handwritten Chinese characters (HCC) can be divided into offline and online categories. Online HCC recognition (HCCR) involves the trajectory movement of the pen tip for expressing linguistic content. In contrast, offline HCCR involves analyzing and categorizing the sample binary or grayscale images of characters. As recognition technology develops, academics' interest in Chinese character recognition has continuously increased, as it significantly affects social and economic development. Recent development in this area is promising. …

Rejecting The Ottomans, Revisiting The Mamluks, Yasmine M. Ahmed, Claire Panetta

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Constructing Identity Through Code Choice And Code-Switching: Evidence From Multilingual Muslim Women In Barcelona, Farah Ali

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

With the presence of Catalan, Spanish, and a variety of migrant languages, multilingualism in Catalonia extends across the region and is a regular practice for native-born and migrant residents alike. This study examines language use and its relationship to identity construction among first and second-generation Muslim women immigrants in Barcelona. Data was collected from 34 female informants in Barcelona, all of whom identified as first or second-generation Muslim. Data consisted of questionnaires and interviews which were designed to learn about the informants’ linguistic background as well as the extent to which they used Spanish, Catalan and their native/heritage language(s). As …

The Worlding Of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, And The Ethics Of Translatability, Anna Ziajka Stanton

Literary Studies

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?

The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic literature is one that transmits the literariness …

Transnational Technical Communication: English As A Business Lingua Franca In Engineering Workplaces, Amy Hodges, Leslie Seawright

SAGE Open Access Agreement Publications

Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students' linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) in workplace communication. Interviewees' reflections about their university experience indicate that they had not previously understood the full rhetorical and communicative nature of BELF. We provide implications for instructors who wish to provide methods that center intercultural professional communication and decenter English as a standardized, static language.

British Colonialism And Imperialism, Atreyee Majumder, Sandeep Banerjee

Popular Media

Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in their database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations. This bibliography focuses on the relationship between British colonialism in India and the development of modern Hinduism.

Concordia Seminary Magazine Fall/Winter 2023, Vicki Biggs

Concordia Seminary Magazine

Sharing the Gospel. Sharing Our Lives.

Comprehensive List Satirical News Websites, Salvatore Attardo

Faculty Publications

Index of Satirical News Websites created by Dr. Salvatore Attardo.

The Other Side Of The Acess Pyramid: A Healing, Sidney Shaw, M Rides At The Door

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

A Storm Of Songs, Atreyee Majumder, J S. Hawley

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

"Waaay Beyond Words": Using Voice And Gestures To Catapult Communication, David Páez

Shared Knowledge Conference

"Mmmuuuchísimos años atrás" (mmmaaany years ago). That is what a Colombian speaker would say when describing an event that occurred a long time ago. In doing so, they simulate throwing an imaginary object (like a paper plane), pushing their hands far away from the body. At the same time, they will extend the duration of the words and rise and drop intonation and speaking rate, simulating the sound of throwing that object. This combination of multiple "modalities" of expression (speech sounds and gestures) that resemble the concepts they are conveying is called Multimodal Iconic Expressions (MMIEs). These MMIEs tend to …

Aging And Learning: Community Engagement And Self-Efficacy In L2 Teaching To Elderly Students, Leticia Rinaldi

Shared Knowledge Conference

The elderly population (60 years or older) has been increasing in numbers during the past decades around the world and is expected to reach the number of two billion by 2050 (Scult, Haime, et al 2015; Santos, 2019). In Brazil, the aging population numbers are rising more rapidly compared to the global tendency (Alves, 2020). However, the misconception that elderly people are uncapable or incompetent is still part of the imaginary constructed around the aging population (Minichiello and Coulson, 2005). These perceptions shape the access of older population to resources that are accessible to younger sections of society, causing a …

Aging And Learning: Community Engagement And Self-Efficacy In L2 Teaching To Elderly Students, Leticia Rinaldi

Shared Knowledge Conference

The elderly population (60 years or older) has been increasing in numbers during the past decades around the world and is expected to reach the number of two billion by 2050 (Scult, Haime, et al 2015; Santos, 2019). In Brazil, the aging population numbers are rising more rapidly compared to the global tendency (Alves, 2020). However, the misconception that elderly people are uncapable or incompetent is still part of the imaginary constructed around the elderly population (Minichiello & Coulson, 2005). These perceptions shape the access of older population to resources that are accessible to younger sections of society, causing elderly …

Flex File Backup Of The Mutsun Text Collection, Natasha Warner, Lynnika Butler, Heather Van Volkinburg, Quirina Geary

Mutsun Text Collection: mutsun riicakma hummen

FieldWorks Explorer (FLEx) file backup of the Mutsun Text Collection. The FieldWorks Language Explorer is an open source desktop application designed for managing cultural and linguistic data.

Indigenize Milwaukee Map Data, Bryan C. Rindfleisch, Alex Liberato, Cameron Fronczak, Clare Camblin, Marshall Kopacki

Digital Scholarship Lab

The CSV file for the Indigenize Milwaukee Map located at https://indigenizemilwaukeeproject.github.io/map. The map uses Leaflet Story Maps with Google Sheets.

This file is updated annually.

Parental Involvement And Satisfaction: A Comparative Study Of High-School Charter Schools And Traditional Public Schools, Nicholas Thompson-Davis

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine parents’ levels of satisfaction with school choice by comparing charter and traditional public schools at the secondary level. The main assumption of the study is that parental satisfaction with school choice is related to parental involvement with children’s education and their views of school-home communication. The study is guided by Bourdieu’s theory of capital to interpret parental involvement efforts and their assessment of school-home communication as ways to acquire social capital for themselves and their children. Epstein’s framework of parental involvement allows for operationalizing the concept with respect to school and out-of-school …

Ibn Al-Jawzī’S Critique Of Sufism In Talbīs Iblīs: A Re-Examination, Pascal Held

Faculty Journal Articles

This study seeks to re-examine Ibn al-Jawzī’s (d. 597/1201) censure of Sufism in his Talbīs Iblīs, a widely-known and frequently cited, but rarely carefully considered work. The article finds that Talbīs Iblīs’ chapter devoted to Sufism does indeed constitute a scathing condemnation of the Sufi tradition, which is however by no means comprehensive and requires moreover certain specifications and clarifications. For example, is Ibn al-Jawzī’s criticism mostly limited to Sufi conduct and practice, especially in public, rather than their ideas and beliefs, and likewise does he use his criticism to highlight commendable forms of piety and mysticism, revealing that he …

Effects Of Integrated Fuzzy Logic Pid Controller On Satellite Antenna Tracking System, Ali Wagdy Mohamed, R. Obulakonda Reddy, Sandeep Kautish, V.Padmanabha Reddy

Faculty Journal Articles

An electrical device that transforms the electricity into the waves of radio and vice versa is termed the antenna. Its main deployment is in the transmitter and receiver of the antenna. While transmission, the transmitter of radio at the extremities of the antenna furnishes the electricity which oscillates at the frequency of radio wave and energy is released as current as em waves. Some of the voltage is formed from the em wave that is invaded at the point of receiving to amplify the receiver. This study focuses on the analysis of the satellite system to aid in mobile antenna …

Performance Study On Extractive Text Summarization Using Bert Models, Shehab Abdel-Salam, Ahmed Rafea

Faculty Journal Articles

The task of summarization can be categorized into two methods, extractive and abstractive. Extractive summarization selects the salient sentences from the original document to form a summary while abstractive summarization interprets the original document and generates the summary in its own words. The task of generating a summary, whether extractive or abstractive, has been studied with different approaches in the literature, including statistical-, graph-, and deep learning-based approaches. Deep learning has achieved promising performances in comparison to the classical approaches, and with the advancement of different neural architectures such as the attention network (commonly known as the transformer), there are …

Rehabilitation/Recovery Journals, Judy Schmitt

Library Faculty Works

Comprehensive list of rehabilitation/recovery journals

Critical Essays On Disability Rights Jurisprudence: Combating Exclusion, Embracing Inclusion, Sanjay Jain

Books

This book is a collection of high quality research papers contributed by eminent academicians, philosophers and jurists. Its main objective is to disseminate and spread awareness about rights of persons with disabilities. The book also provides useful inputs to activists, lawyers, jurists and academicians to evolve empowerment strategies for recognition, promotion and protection of rights of persons with disabilities. Besides the Indian scenario, the book also explores developments in disability rights in countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and USA, thereby broadening the horizon of the field. It features high quality articles focusing on international law standards of Human Rights of …

Deconstructing The Notion Of Literary Genre: Ancient Egyptian And Premodern Arabic Poetics, Samia Mehrez, Hany Rashwan

Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc...

lecture by Hany Rashwan, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Listen to Dr. Hany Rashwan unveil ancient Egyptian mysteries as he compares the stylistics of premodern Arabic poetics or balāgha to ancient Egyptian rhetoric. Rashwan fascinates us with a rich and deep knowledge of the literary and linguistic closeness between premodern Arabic literature and ancient Egyptian literature.

Sociology Of Translation: Shakespeare In Arabic, Samia Mehrez

Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc...

Lecture by Dr. Sameh Hanna Translation Consultant at the United Bible Societies Listen to Dr. Sameh Hanna talk about the intricacies of translating Shakespeare into Arabic. Hanna unveils the hidden sociological decisions that go into the process of translation and the effects that they have on the meaning of the translated work. Prepare yourself to be amazed by the complexity of the sociological, political, literary, and linguistic endeavor that is translation.

Public Datasets: Access, Download And Cleaning (Aws), Ramez Elmasri, Mary E. Koone

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications

In this paper, we describe the steps we took to access and use one of the data sets available via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Translating Egyptian Colloquial Poetry: The Case Of Sayyed Darwish, Samia Mehrez

Audio & Video by Faculty: Webinars, interviews, documentaries, etc...

A Virtual lecture organized by the Center for Translation Studies By Mai Serhan, MSt Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford Tune in and listen to Mai Serhan take us through the creative process of translating Sayyed Darwish’s Egyptian songs into English. Serhan explains the personal choices and linguistic sacrifices that she makes as a translator and a poet in order to keep the integrity of the work while staying true to her poetic craft. She also introduces her book This is What has Come to Be, an English translation of Sayyed Darwish’s songs which can be found …

Exploring Film Language With A Digital Analysis Tool: The Case Of Kinolab, Allison Cooper, Fernando Nascimento, David Francis

Education Faculty Publications

This article presents a case study of Kinolab, a digital platform for the analysis of narrative film language. It describes the need for a scholarly database of clips focusing on film language for cinema and media studies faculty and students, highlighting recent technological and legal advances that have created a favorable environment for this kind of digital humanities work. Discussion of the project is situated within the broader context of contemporary developments in moving image annotation and a discussion of the unique challenges posed by computationally-driven moving image analysis. The article also argues for a universally accepted data model for …

Documents From The October 21, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum, University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the October 21, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed during the meeting:

SB 36_20/21- Resolution Creating an ASUM Marketing & Outreach Director

SB 37_20/21- Resolution Opposing the Department of Homeland Security Rule to Eliminate the Duration of Status for Students and Dependents Using F and J Visas

SB 38_20/21- Resolution Revising ASUM Bylaws Article VI, Section 3.F.6; Allowing Candidates Further Student Outreach for Elections

SB 39_20/21- Resolution Revising ASUM Bylaws Article VI, Section 3.L; Allowing Certain Groups to Endorse ASUM Candidates for Elected Office …

Documents From The October 14, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and minutes from the October 14, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolution was discussed during the meeting:

SB 35_20/21 - Resolution Amending Personnel Policy to Increase ASUM Receptionist Wages