Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  Introduction There are so many applications for speech-to-text capabilities. Online meeting tools like Microsoft Teams use speech-to-text capabilities to transcribe meetings. Transcriptions of even live meetings may be performed to automate note taking . Video streaming websites and applications transcribe audio to support closed captioning (CC). Music files are transcribed to provide lyrics to support your favorite karaoke night. Transcribing podcasts, audiograms, and other video and audio files posted to social media may also be performed in the process of web scraping.  There are a lot of Python libraries available for individuals wishing to incorporate speech-to-text capabilities in their own applications and research.  Whisper , developed by OpenAI, is one such library that can not only perform transcriptions, but translations into multiple languages as well. Other major companies like Google and IBM have released their own libraries that also provide these capabil...

  My name is Brian Llinás , and I joined the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group at Old Dominion University  (ODU) as a Ph.D. student in the Spring of 2023 (my first year), supervised by Dr. Michael Nelson. Recently I received my bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Universidad del Norte (UniNorte), Barranquilla, Colombia. I have been involved in research academic life for the last two years. I started working with some professors from the College of Industrial Engineering at UniNorte on research topics such as Operation Research, Humanitarian Logistics, Simulation & Transportation, and Machine Learning. Still, I developed more affinity with Machine Learning, Data Science, and everything related to statistics and data. My significant research experience in Colombia was working with the SIMAS-UN research group at UniNorte, which is part of the  Storymodelers  Lab in the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VM...

Hello  WSDL Blog  readers! My name is  James (Jim/Jimmy) Ecker  and I joined the  Web Science and Digital Libraries  (WS-DL) research group  at  Old Domin ion Un iversity  as a Ph.D student in Fall 2019. I decided to pursue a Ph.D to primarily refine my skills in research, academic writing, and presenting/communicating my work . I am being advised by  Michael Nelson .  In my time at ODU, I have taken  CS891 - Emerging Technologies , where we developed our academic presentation skills with respect to presenting research on various emerging technologies,  CS800 - Research Methods , where we further developed academic presentation and writing skills, and am currently taking  CS895 - Web Archiving Forensics , where we are developing more applied research skills to establish whether information being shared on the internet is authentic. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from  Florida Southern College ...