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- ArticleSeptember 2023
- research-articleJanuary 2022
More with Less: ZeroQA and Relevant Subset Selection for AI2 Reasoning Challenge
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 207, Issue CPages 2757–2766https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.09.334AbstractNatural language processing has had a significant growth in recent years, two key factors being the increase of processing capabilities leading to very large models and the availability of larger standardized datasets. However, not every specific ...
- ArticleDecember 2021
Ego Networks
AbstractGames on the Atari 2600 platform have served as a benchmark for reinforcement learning algorithms in recent years, and while deep reinforcement learning approaches make progress on most games, there are still some games that the majority of these ...
- ArticleNovember 2021
Unsupervised Detection of Solving Strategies for Competitive Programming
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2021Pages 157–165https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91608-4_16AbstractTransformers are becoming more and more used for solving various Natural Language Processing tasks. Recently, they have also been employed to process source code to analyze very large code-bases automatically. This paper presents a custom-designed ...
- ArticleNovember 2021
Combining Encoplot and NLP Based Deep Learning for Plagiarism Detection
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2021Pages 97–106https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91608-4_10AbstractThis paper tackles the classical problem of plagiarism detection by employing current state-of-the-art NLP methods based on Deep Learning. We investigate whether transformer models may be used along with existing solutions for plagiarism detection,...
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- research-articleAugust 2021
Before and during COVID-19: A Cohesion Network Analysis of students’ online participation in moodle courses
- Maria-Dorinela Dascalu,
- Stefan Ruseti,
- Mihai Dascalu,
- Danielle S. McNamara,
- Mihai Carabas,
- Traian Rebedea,
- Stefan Trausan-Matu
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed the entire world, while the impact and usage of online learning environments has greatly increased. This paper presents a new version of the ReaderBench framework, grounded in Cohesion Network Analysis,...
Highlights- We evaluate students' behaviors before and during COVID-19 as a plug-in to Moodle.
- ArticleSeptember 2018
Help Me Understand This Conversation: Methods of Identifying Implicit Links Between CSCL Contributions
AbstractMulti-participant chat conversations are one of the most frequently employed Computer Supported Collaborative Learning tools due to their ease of use. Moreover, chats enhance knowledge sharing, sustain creativity and aid in collaborative problem ...
- ArticleSeptember 2017
Deep Neural Networks for Matching Online Social Networking Profiles
AbstractThis paper details a novel method for grouping together online social networking profiles of the same person extracted from different sources. Name ambiguity arises naturally in any culture due to the popularity of specific names which are shared ...
- research-articleSeptember 2017
Sentence selection with neural networks using string kernels
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 112, Issue CPages 1774–1782https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.209In recent years, there have been several advancements in question answering systems. These were achieved both due to the availability of a greater number of datasets, some of them significantly larger in size than any of the existing corpora, and to the ...
- ArticleNovember 2014
Detecting and Describing Historical Periods in a Large Corpora
ICTAI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 26th International Conference on Tools with Artificial IntelligencePages 764–770https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2014.118Many historic periods (or events) are remembered by slogans, expressions or words that are strongly linked to them. Educated people are also able to determine whether a particular word or expression is related to a specific period in human history. The ...
- ArticleSeptember 2013
Detecting Implicit References in Chats Using Semantics
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact - Volume 8095Pages 627–628https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_84Chat conversations with multiple participants are widely used in solving a wide range of CSCL tasks. One of the reasons for their success is that they encourage multiple conversation threads to exist in parallel, thus allowing multiple topics and ideas ...
- ArticleSeptember 2013
NLP-Based Heuristics for Assessing Participants in CSCL Chats
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact - Volume 8095Pages 84–96https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_8In this paper, we present an application that can be used for assessing the participants' contributions to multiple chat conversations that debate the same topics according to different criteria involvement, knowledge and innovation, along with the ...
- ArticleSeptember 2013
Detecting Discourse Creativity in Chat Conversations
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact - Volume 8095Pages 597–598https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_69In this paper we propose a new method for identifying creativity that is based on analyzing a corpus of chat conversations on the same topic and extracting the new ideas expressed by participants. The application is a first step in supporting creativity ...
- ArticleSeptember 2013
WikiDetect: Automatic Vandalism Detection for Wikipedia Using Linguistic Features
ICCCI 2013: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications - Volume 8083Pages 316–325https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40495-5_32Vandalism of the content has always been one of the greatest problems for Wikipedia, yet only few completely automatic solutions for solving it have been developed so far. Volunteers still spend large amounts of time correcting vandalized page edits, ...
- ArticleMay 2013
Automatic Plagiarism Detection System for Specialized Corpora
CSCS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer SciencePages 77–82https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCS.2013.88Plagiarism in the academic writing is considered one of the worst breaches of professional conduct in western society and automatic detection of it has become an important use case for Natural Language Processing research. We created a new system, ...
- ArticleMay 2013
Relevance-Based Ranking of Video Comments on YouTube
CSCS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer SciencePages 225–231https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCS.2013.87There are many web platforms that are used to share non-textual content, such as videos, images, animations, etc. and that allow users to add comments for each item. YouTube is probably the most popular of them, with billions of videos uploaded by its ...
- ArticleMay 2013
Designing a Chat-bot that Simulates an Historical Figure
CSCS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer SciencePages 582–589https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCS.2013.85There are many applications that are incorporating a human appearance and intending to simulate human dialog, but in most of the cases the knowledge of the conversational bot is stored in a database created by a human experts. However, very few ...
- ArticleJuly 2012
A System for the Automatic Analysis of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Chats
ICALT '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced Learning TechnologiesPages 95–99https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2012.101The paper presents a system for helping the analysis of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning chat (instant messenger) sessions, starting from a polyphonic model of the discourse inspired by the dialogistics of Bakhtin. Some theoretical basics of ...
- ArticleSeptember 2011
Automatic assessment of collaborative chat conversations with PolyCAFe
EC-TEL'11: Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Technology enhanced learning: towards ubiquitous learningPages 299–312The wider acceptance and usage of instant messaging (chat) represents one of the consequences of undertaking Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) practices in formal education settings. However, the difficulty of analyzing these textual ...
- ArticleJune 2011
Repetition and rhythmicity based assessment model for chat conversations
ISMIS'11: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Foundations of intelligent systemsPages 513–522This paper presents a model and an application that can be used to assess chat conversations according to their content, which is related to a number of imposed topics, and to the personal involvement of the participants. The main theoretical ideas that ...