I Write What I Like

Does It Matter With What I Write

This study builds on three previous studies (Russell, 1999; Russell & Haney,1997; Russell & Plati, 2001) to examine the effect administering extended composi-tion test items on paper, on computer or on a portable writing device has on studentperformance. This study employs writing items from the 1999 Massachusetts Com-prehensive Assessment System (MCAS) to examine the mode of ad...

"I grade what I get but write what I think." Inconsistency Analysis in Patients' Reviews

Received medical services are increasingly discussed and recommended on physician rating websites (PRWs). The reviews and ratings on these platforms are valuable sources of information for patient opinion mining. In this paper, we have tackled three issues that come along with inconsistency analysis on PRWs: (1) Natural language processing of user-generated reviews, (2) the disagreement in pola...

Why I write.

Write Like I Write: Herding in the Language of Online Reviews

Our behaviors often converge with those of others, and language within social media is no exception. We consider reviews of tourist attractions at TripAdvisor (TA), the world’s largest resource for travel information. Unlike social networking sites, TA review forums do not facilitate direct interaction between participants. Nonetheless, theory suggests that language is guided by writers’ concep...

I Know What I Know

How important is software construction? Software construction has been the awkward stepchild of software engineering for decades. This puzzles me because software construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to be done on every project. Code is the center of the software universe. Process advocates tend to downplay coding, focusing more on the documentation that occurs before and after c...