Methodological issues in developing a multi-dimensional coding procedure for small group chat communication [PDF]
In CSCL research, collaboration through chat has primarily been studied in dyadic settings. This article discusses three issues that emerged during the development of a multi-dimensional coding procedure for small group chat communication: a) the unit of
Stahl, Gerry, Strijbos, Jan-Willem
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The increasing volume of large, multi-thematic text corpora in social sciences presents a challenge in selecting relevant documents for qualitative and mixed-methods research.
Hubert Plisiecki, Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
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SocialAI 0.1: Towards a Benchmark to Stimulate Research on Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents [PDF]
Building embodied autonomous agents capable of participating in social interactions with humans is one of the main challenges in AI. This problem motivated many research directions on embodied language use. Current approaches focus on language as a communication tool in very simplified and non diverse social situations: the "naturalness" of language is
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Content Analysis by the Crowd: Assessing the Usability of Crowdsourcing for Coding Latent Constructs
Crowdsourcing platforms are commonly used for research in the humanities, social sciences and informatics, including the use of crowdworkers to annotate textual material or visuals.
F. Lind, Maria Gruber, H. Boomgaarden
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Qualitative analysis of the impact of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders on daily life activities. [PDF]
To evaluate the impact of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders (OPMD) on daily life activities.Patients diagnosed with Oral Leukoplakia, Oral submucous fibrosis and Oral Lichen Planus attending the Oral Medicine clinic of Panineeya Institute of Dental ...
Jyothi Tadakamadla+3 more
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Modelling Synergy using Manifest Categorical Variables [PDF]
This paper discusses methods to model the concept of synergy at the level of manifest categorical variables. First, a classification of concepts of synergy is presented. A dditive and nonadditive concepts of synergy are distinguished.
Rogers, William+2 more
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SocialAI: Benchmarking Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents [PDF]
Building embodied autonomous agents capable of participating in social interactions with humans is one of the main challenges in AI. Within the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) field, this objective motivated multiple works on embodied language use.
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The reform movement in statistics education has led to a revitalization of the undergraduate introductory statistics course. However, many students satisfy their degree requirements by taking statistics courses in “client departments” such as business ...
Aimee Schwab-McCoy
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Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID-19 measures from multilingual legal texts:The merits and limitations of automated approaches [PDF]
This paper contributes to ongoing scholarly debates on the merits and limitations of computational legal text analysis by reflecting on the results of a research project documenting exceptional COVID-19 management measures in Europe.
Caselli, Tommaso+4 more
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Reading the Source Code of Social Ties [PDF]
Though online social network research has exploded during the past years, not much thought has been given to the exploration of the nature of social links. Online interactions have been interpreted as indicative of one social process or another (e.g., status exchange or trust), often with little systematic justification regarding the relation between ...
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