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LUCA BECCHETTI et al., The Vatican Secret Archives
No full textThe Vatican Secret Archives. LUCA BECCHETTI et al. Foreword by Cardinal Raffaele Farina; translation by Monsignor James O’Brien; photography by Philippe Debeerst, Andrea Marini, and Enrico Ottaviani. Brussels: Paul Van den Heuvel – VdH Books, 2009. 252 p. ISBN 9789088810077
Content-based multimedia recommendation systems: Definition and application domains
No full textThe goal of this work is to formally provide a general definition of a multimedia recommendation system (MMRS), in particular a content-based MMRS (CB-MMRS), and to shed light on different applications of multimedia content for solving a variety of tasks related to recommendation. We would like to disambiguate the fact that multimedia recommendation is not only about recommending a particular media type (e.g., music, video), rather there exists a variety of other applications in which the analysis of multimedia input can be usefully exploited to provide recommendations of various kinds of information
Mining software repositories to support OSS developers: A recommender systems approach
No full textTo facilitate the development activities, software developers frequently look up external sources for related information. Consulting data available at open source software (OSS) repositories can be considered as their daily routine. Nonetheless, the heterogeneity of resources and their corresponding dependencies are the main obstacles to the effective mining and exploitation of the data. Given the context, the manual search for every single resource to find the most suitable ones is a daunting and inefficient task. Thus, equipping developers with techniques and tools to accelerate the search process as well as to improve the search results will help them enhance the work efficiency. Within the scope of the EU funded CROSSMINER project, advanced techniques and tools are being conceived for providing open software developers with innovative features aiming at obtaining improvements in terms of development effort, cost savings, developer productivity, etc. To this end, cutting-edge technologies are applied, such as information retrieval and recommender systems to solve the problem of mining the rich metadata available at OSS repositories to support software developers. In this paper, we present the main research problems as well the proposed approach together with some preliminary results
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Moving from item rating to features relevance in top-N recommendation
Full text linkAlthough very effective in computing accurate recommendations, due to their inner nature, collaborative algorithms work very well with dense matrices but show their limits when they deal with sparse ones. In these cases, using only past ratings may lead to unsatisfactory results in the recommendation list. In this paper we show how to move from a user-item to a user-feature matrix by exploiting original user ratings. We then use matrix factorization techniques to compute recommendations
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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