2024-01-03: Seven WSDL Classes Offered for Spring 2024
https://xkcd.com/2610/Seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Spring 2024. The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. CS 418/518 Web...
View Article2024-01-06: Paper Summary on "FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language...
1. IntroductionIn the rapidly advancing field of technology, with the integration of GenAI and Machine Learning, ChatGPT has garnered significant attention. The development of LLMs has advanced...
View Article2024-01-10: Paper Summary: ClaimDistiller: Scientific Claim Extraction with...
Figure 1: An example of claim sentences (Figure 1 in ClaimDistiller: Scientific Claim Extraction with Supervised Contrastive Learning)In the summer of 2023, we published a paper titled...
View Article2024-01-16: Paper summary: Archival HTTP Redirection Retrieval Policies
Figure 1: URI-R and URI-M HTTP redirection relationship cases. Figure 2 fromAlSum et al.Redirection of web pages refers to the process of forwarding a user from one URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) to...
View Article2024-01-15: Lawrence Obiuwevwi (Computer Science Ph.D. Student at ODU)
My name is Lawrence Obiuwevwi, and I am from Nigeria. I had my bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Nigeria. My bachelor’s thesis was on “design...
View Article2024-01-16: ALICE - AI Leveraged Information Capture and Exploration
.gist {width:600px !important;} .gist-file .gist-data {max-height: 600px;max-width: 720px;} Organizational presentations often carry a wealth of data: images, charts, and text that tell a compelling...
View Article2024-01-19: Paper Summary of "Overcoming Barriers to Information Exchange on...
Fig. 1: Figure 7 from "Sprinter: Speeding Up High-Fidelity Crawling of the Modern Web"Introduction Dr. Ayush Goel is a recent Ph.D graduate from the University of Michigan’s Systems Lab, studying...
View Article2024-01-23: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)...
The 28th annual Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference, held at the University of Technology Sydney in Sydney, Australia, stands as one of the most notable and major conferences in the realm of...
View Article2024-01-23: ACM SIGCHI conference on Engineering Interactive Computing...
We're happy that our research paper, titled "Enabling Customization of Discussion Forums for Blind Users" has been recognized at EICS 2023 which happened in Swansea, UK. Our paper focuses on making...
View Article2024-01-29: 16th International Conference on Social Computing,...
The 16th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) 2023 was a hybrid conference with...
View Article2024-01-30: Disinformation Detection and Analytics REU Program - Final...
Adam Martin presenting his work at 2023 REU Final Presentation SessionThe Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) offers practical learning and research opportunities for undergraduates...
View Article2024-01-31: ODU CS 2023 Trick-or-Research Event Recap
The Department of Computer Science (CS) at Old Dominion University (ODU) held its fifth annual Trick-or-Research event on Monday, October 31, 2023. This event is a collaborative effort from the...
View Article2024-02-01: Defining Gamification
Figure 1: Differentiating concepts similar to gamification by using the two dimensions ofplaying/gaming and parts/whole. Figure from https://doi.org/10.1145/2181037.2181040For the Game Walkthroughs...
View Article2024-02-07: LangChain: A Framework to Build Applications with LLMs
Figure 1: LangChain ComponentsIn the world of artificial intelligence, one game-changing innovation has been grabbing everyone's attention and transforming the way we interact with language – Large...
View Article2024-02-26: Paper Summary: Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge...
Comparison of the pros and cons of a Large Language Model and a Knowledge Graph and how they compliment each other when integrated (Pan et al.)In my previous blog post, ALICE - AI Leveraged Information...
View Article2024-03-07: Digital Humanities and the Study of Mediterranean Mobilities...
On January 18-19, 2024, the workshop on Digital Humanities and the Study of Mediterranean Mobilities was held for the first time. This event took place at the University of California, Berkeley and...
View Article2024-03-20: The Curious Case of Twitter's Server-Side UI
Web archives are essential for researchers studying Twitter, offering a historical perspective on evolving conversations and trends. Archives ensure data integrity and preservation, which is crucial in...
View Article2024-03-21: Surveying Recent Work on Measuring Web Archiving and Replay...
Figure 1: Six articles and the type of web archiving and replay performance metrics that they included in their work.For the Game Walkthroughs and Web Archiving project, we have created web archiving...
View Article2024-03-27: If the First Archived Copy by the Wayback Machine is 404, When...
Figure 1: TimeMap for the URL https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672On July 1, 2023, Elon Musk posted a tweet that was archived multiple times by the Wayback Machine. Figure 1 shows a...
View Article2024-04-04: Paper Summary: DeepPatent2: A Large-Scale Benchmarking Corpus for...
Figure 1. An example from DeepPatent2 extraction results for US Design Patent #0836880 (Figure 1 in DeepPatent2)IntroductionTechnical illustrations and drawings, unlike natural images, are...
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