research on pre-task planning has revealed that planned conditions have produced more fluent and complex language than unplanned conditions. to date, most of these studies have investigated the effects of individual planning on language production while collaborative planning has received scant attention. to determine the effects of pre-task planning on second language written production, the p...

Previous experimental studies have indicated that young people’s text comprehension and summarisation skills can be improved by techniques based on text concept mapping (TCM). However, these studies have done little to elucidate a pedagogy that can make the techniques adoptable within the context of typical secondary school classrooms. This paper explains how a collaborative research approach h...

Annotated corpora of the size needed for modern computational linguistics research cannot be created by small groups of hand annotators. One solution is to exploit collaborative work on the Web and one way to do this is through games like the ESP game. Applying this methodology however requires developing methods for teaching subjects the rules of the game and evaluating their contribution whil...

P[a]ra[pra]xis is an ongoing collaborative project incorporating a two-piece software package which explores human relations to language through dynamic sound and text production. Incorporating an exploration of the potential functions and limitations of the ‘sign’ and the intrusions of the Unconscious into the linguistic utterance via parapraxes, or ‘Freudian slips’, our software utilises real...

This paper presents an argument that information systems may support deeper engagement between readers and the text by realizing the capacity for readers to take more active roles while seeking information. Information systems could support collaborative information seeking by displaying shared annotations. Subsequent readers would be able to leverage the semantic information encoded within the...

Massive amounts of data are available in today’s Digital Libraries (DLs). The challenge is to find relevant information quickly and easily, and to use it effectively. A standard way to access DLs is via a text -based query issued by a single user. Typically, the query results in a potentially very long ordered list of matching documents, that makes it hard for users to find what they are lookin...

BioC is a simple XML format for text, annotations and relations, and was developed to achieve interoperability for biomedical text processing. Following the success of BioC in BioCreative IV, the BioCreative V BioC track addressed a collaborative task to build an assistant tool for BioGRID curation. For this track, we divided the whole task into 8 different subtopics including gene/protein/orga...

With the rapid explosion of online news articles, predicting userbrowsing behavior using collaborative filtering techniques has gained much attention in the web personalization area. However, common collaborative filtering techniques suffer from low accuracy and performance. This research proposes a new personalized recommendation approach that integrates user and text clustering based on our d...

The increasing popularity of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the availability of software capable of reading and editing XML documents present opportunities for Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) facilities to be incorporated into "groupware" applications such as collaborative workspaces and "document bases", and to be made available across networks both within organisations and across the In...

We submitted six interactive search runs for TRECVID2007, including 2 single user and 4 collaborative runs. In one single-user run (FXPAL MMA) the searchers had access to all resources including text search, text similarity, image similarity, and concept similarity search. In the other single-user submission (FXPAL MMV) the transcripts were not available and only features derived directly from ...