Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL 2020 )  Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. The goal of this workshop is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice in a constructive atmosphere. Here, students present and discuss their research in a supportive atmosphere, with other doctoral students and an international panel of established researchers. The JCDL 2020 Doctoral Consortium took place in two virtual sessions . The first session took place on July 31, from 10.30 PM - 12.00 AM (UTC-4). The second session took place on August 1, from 1:30 AM - 3:00 AM (UTC-4). Session 1 The first session took place with Dr. Xiaozhong Liu from Indiana University, USA , Dr. Wei Lu from Wuhan University, China , and Dr. Jian Qin from Syracuse University, USA as the primary mentors, and Dr. Stephen Downie from University of Illinois, USA ,

Fig. 1: Three connected components from three different StoryGraphs, representing three different news stories. The first connected component represents the news story about North Korea considering firing missiles at Guam , the second, the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan , and the third, AG William Barr's release of his summary of the Mueller Report . A lot has happened in three years. We've seen threats of war , hurricanes Harvey / Irma / Maria , upsets in  elections ,  a royal wedding , an impeachment , a pandemic , etc. For all these stories and many more, for three years, every 10-minutes, StoryGraph has been reading the news, generating news similarity graphs, and quantifying the level of attention news stories receive. August 8, 2020 marked the third year since StoryGraph went live. In this blogpost, I will take a retrospective look at the studies StoryGraph has enabled and a promise multiple services and studies for the future. StoryGraph's Past: studies a

Md Javedul Ferdous M.S. in Computer Science, AIUB, 2019 B.S. in  Computer Science and Engineering , EWU, 2016 Hello, I am a doctoral student at Old Dominion University (ODU) , Norfolk, VA. I received a master’s degree in Computer Science at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) , Dhaka, Bangladesh. At ODU, I'm working with the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL)  research group under the supervision of Dr. Vikas Ashok . My research projects include human-computer interaction, deep Learning, and algorithm-based problem-solving.  I have research experience in computer vision, deep learning, and the Bayesian algorithm. My master’s thesis research was on classification, computation, and movement of an object and their corresponding relationship. In this project, I used a region-based fully convolutional network and a long and short-term memory-based model. For the dissertation of my bachelor’s degree, I worked on the Bayesian Network to verify the Software Product L

Figure 1: Line charts of absolute Twitter follower growth for the Twitter accounts, @berniesanders (top left),  @joebiden (top right), @marwilliamson (bottom left), and @petebuttigieg (bottom right). In our previous posts,   Twitter Follower Growth for the 2020 Democratic Candidates  and    Revisiting Twitter Follower Growth for the 2020 Democratic Candidates , we used  Twitter follower growth between 2019-01-01 and 2019-04-18 as a proxy to measure popularity of the Democratic candidates.  We found an 80% similarity between  the list of top 10 candidates based on absolute increase in the Twitter follower count and the final 10 candidates remaining in the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination race based on their campaign withdrawal date.  In order to collect historical Twitter follower count of the Democratic candidates, we parsed the follower count values from the Twitter mementos of the candidates. Miranda Smith , in her post,  Twitter Follower Count History via the Inte

On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020 . Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities of the conference web portal , we were able to watch speakers, raise hands, ask questions, and chat with attendees.  SIGIR 2020 was in Xi'an, China , but few registrants could attend in person due to the travel restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic . The SIGIR 2020 program committee successfully converted their in-person conference to an online variant. They reduced conference fees so more people could attend and made much of the live streaming content available to the public. ACM SIGIR is the premier conference for information retrieval. I have always wanted to attend. I have no papers to present, but Los Alamos National Laboratory was kind enough to pay for my time and attendance. SIGIR 2020 was my first pandemic video conference. I witnessed impressive work in this rapidly changing landscape. The age of ter