Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Between November 18 and 20, I attended the 2019 International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019) . K-CAP is an ACM sponsored conference, rated as “A” in the   ERA conference rating system . It happens once every two years. Its counterpart in Europe is EKAW (unfortunately, EKAW is rated as B), which also happens every two years. I had papers accepted by K-CAP 2015 and 2017. This year, I co-authored a short paper titled “ Searching for Evidence of Scientific News in Scholarly Big Data ” ( poster link ). The first author is my co-advised student Reshad Hoque at ODU . I also co-authored and presented a long paper titled “Automatic Slide Generation for Scientific Papers” in the 3rdInternational Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge (SciKnow 2019) . The first author is my co-advised student Athar Sefid at Penn State.   Due to my tight schedule, I had to return right after the keynote by Peter Clark on the first day, so this trip report su...

Fort Worth Museum of Science & History 9/11 Tribute The theme of the workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries (KDDL) was to uncover hidden relationships between data with techniques from artificial intelligence, mathematics, statistics, and algorithms. The workshop organizers, which included ODU Computer Science alumna, Dr. Hui Shi , Dr. Wu He , and Dr. Guandong Xu identified the following objectives that we were to explore: Existing and novel techniques to extract and present knowledge from digital libraries; Advanced ways to organize and maintain digital libraries to facilitate knowledge discovery; Knowledge discovery applications in business; and New challenges and technologies brought to the area of knowledge discovery and digital libraries. Hui Shi, @oducs alumni, kicks off Knowledge Discovery from Digital Libraries (KDDL) 2018 #jcdl2018 pic.twitter.com/NrLJUlfRm0 — Shawn M. Jones (@shawnmjones) June 6, 2018 The KDDL workshop consisted of ...