Classifying residents' roles as online place-ambassadors

Classifying and Coding Online Actions

Research on how the Internet is diffusing across the population has broadened from questions about who uses the medium to what people do during their time online. With this change in focus comes a need for more detailed data on people’s online actions. The author provides a method for coding and classifying users’online information-seeking behavior. The author presents an exhaustive list of way...

Control Ambassadors

I t is not often that the future of control is discussed in the mainstream media, but it occurred in a column in the March 17, 2014 issue of Barron’s Technology Week [1]. The author, impressed with the advances in sensor technology displayed at the 2014 South by Southwest show in Austin, Texas, concludes the article with conjectures about future smart control devices that new sensors will enabl...

Classifying Organizational Roles Using Email Social Networks

Classifying social roles by network structures

Network Analysis is employed as methodological approach to classify social roles. With this aim, we measure sociometric status by the direct observation of pre-school children behaviours. The data have been collected by a longitudinal observational study. We follow the children in seven waves for two months. In this study, we measure relational skills of subjects applying three procedures. Name...

Classifying responses on online discussion forums

There are online discussions forums covering an endless variety of topics. Each forum has many topic-specific questions with expert answers. However, the best answer is often buried somewhere in the discussion thread. Given a question on an online forum, we focus on the problem of classifying each response to the question as an answer or a non-answer. Where the answer label indicates if the res...