Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

On June 23, 2026,  we  held our sixth annual  WS-DL Research Expo .   We continued the same format as the prior years ( 2025 ,  2024 ,  2023 ,  2022  &  2021 ), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials (slides, papers, software, data) are gathered in the GitHub  repo , but repeated here are the links for the students and their presentations:   Brian Llinas :  RAG-TEC: Extracting and Classifying Topics in Digital News Collections Using LLMs Lawrence Obiuwevwi :  Cognitive Prosthetic: An AI-Enabled Multimodal System for Episodic Recall in Knowledge Work Akshay Kolgar Nayak :  Contextual Scaffolding and Self-Efficacy: Supporting Computer Skill Development among Blind Learners in India Rochana Obadage :  CC30k: A Citation Contexts Dataset for Reproducibility-Oriented Sentiment Analysis Himarsha Jayanetti :  Infrastructure for ...

  On May 7, 2025,  we  held our fifth annual  WS-DL Research Expo .   We continued the same format as the prior years ( 2024 ,  2023 ,  2022  &  2021 ), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials (slides, papers, software, data) are gathered in the GitHub  repo , but repeated here are the links for the students and their presentations:   Kritika Garg :  Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web Kumushini Thennakoon :  Beyond Gaze Overlap: Analyzing Joint Visual Attention Dynamics Using Egocentric Data Lamia Salsabil :  A Context-Based Ensemble Classifier for Open Access Dataset and Software URLs in Scholarly Documents Akshay Nayak :  Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews Jhon G. Botello :  Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing Changes in Web Archive C...

On April 26, 2024,  we  held our fourth annual  WS-DL Research Expo .   We continued the same format as the prior years ( 2023 ,  2022  &  2021 ), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials (slides, papers, software, data) are gathered in the GitHub  repo , but here are the links for the students and their presentations:   Jim Ecker : ALICE — AI Leveraged Information Capture and Exploration   Mohan Krishna : Detecting Deceptive Dark-PatternWeb Advertisements for Blind Screen-Reader Users   Xin Wei : Visual Descriptor Extraction from Patent Figure Captions: A Case Study of Data Efficiency Between BiLSTM and Transformer   Tarannum Zaki : Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots   Yasasi Abeysinghe : Advanced Gaze Analytics for Distributed Eye Tracking We were fortunate enough to welcome back some of our  alumni , in...

On May 8, 2023,  we  held our third annual  WS-DL Research Expo .   We stuck with the same format as the prior two years ( 2022 & 2021 ): one student from each professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials are gathered in the GitHub  repo , but here again is the list of students and their presentations: Travis Reid : Game Walkthroughs and Web Archiving Project Gavindya Jayawardena : RAEMAP: Real-time Advanced Eye Movements Analysis Pipeline Yash Prakash : AutoDesc: Facilitating Convenient Perusal of Web Data Items for Blind Users David Calano : Updates on Memento Damage Kehinde Ajayi : A Study on Reproducibility and Replicability of Table Structure Recognition Methods We were fortunate enough to welcome back some of our  alumni , including:  Justin Brunelle (PhD, 2016),   Shawn Jones   (PhD, 2021),  Mat Kelly   (PhD, 2019),  Sawood Alam   (2020).  We really appreciate t...

  On April 13, 2022, we held our second annual WS-DL Research Expo .  Our 2021 Research Expo was so successful that we decided to make this an annual event toward the end of the spring semester.  We stuck with the same format: one student from each professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials are gathered in the GitHub repo , but here again is the list of students and their presentations: Corren McCoy : " A Relevance-Based Model for Ranking Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities " Bhanuka Mahanama : " Multi-User Eye-Tracking: Developments and Challenges " Javedul Ferdous : " InSupport: Proxy Interface for Enabling Efficient Non-Visual Interaction with Web Data Records " Lamia Salsabil : " A Study of Computational Reproducibility using URLs Linking to Open Access Datasets and Software " Emily Escamilla : " Archiving Source Code in Scholarly Content: One in Five Articles References GitHub " We were fortunate e...

On April 14, the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group held our 2021 Research Expo.  The occasion was that we had two students who needed to give their MS project presentations, which we would have normally just handled internal within the department.  But since everything is on Zoom now anyway, we decided to allow the other professors in the group nominate one of their students to give a short research update.  All the materials (slides, software, data, etc.) are linked from the GitHub repo for the Research Expo, but the five presentations were: Abigail Mabe , " Extending Chromium: Memento-aware Web Browser " Dhruv Patel , " What Did It Look Like: A service for creating website timelapses using the Memento framework " Muntabir Choudhury , " A Supervised Learning Approach with Visual Features to Extract Metadata from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) " Yasith Jayawardana , " Re-Streaming and Synthesis for Real-Tim...