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External comparisons for financial decision making
No full textGreenwood, Mark. (2007). External comparisons for financial decision making. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/141030
Opportunities and challenges for the US pork sector
No full textGreenwood, Mark. (2008). Opportunities and challenges for the US pork sector. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/140043
The US swine industry: What does the future hold?
No full textGreenwood, Mark. (2003). The US swine industry: What does the future hold?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/145997
SemanticNews: Enriching publishing of news stories
No full textA central goal for the EPSRC funded Semantic Media Network project is to support interesting collaboration opportunities between researchers in order to foster relationships and encourage working together (EPSRC priority 'Working Together'). SemanticNews was one of the four projects funded in the first round of Semantic Media Network mini-projects, and was collaboration between the Universities of Southampton and Sheffield, together with the BBC.The SemanticNews project aimed to promote people's comprehension and assimilation of news by augmenting broadcast news discussion and debate with information from the semantic web in the form of linked open data (LOD). The project has laid the foundations for a toolkit for (semi- ) automatic provision of semantic analysis and contextualization of the discussion of current events, encompassing state of the art semantic web technologies including text mining, consolidation against Linked Open Data, and advanced visualisation.SemanticNews was bootstrapped using episodes of the BBC Question Time programme that already had transcripts and manually curated metadata, which included a list of the topical questions being debated. This information was used to create a workflow that a) extracts relevant entities using established named entity recognition techniques to identify the types of information to contextualise for a news article; b) provides associations with concepts from LOD resources; and, c) visualises the context using information derived from the LOD cloud.This document forms the final report of the SemanticNews project, and describes in detail the processes and techniques explored for the enrichment of Question Time episodes. The final section of the report discusses how this work could be expanded in the future, and also makes a few recommendations for additional data that could be could be captured during the production process that would make the automatic generation of the contextualisation easier
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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