Recommender systems are efficient at predicting users’ current preferences, but how preferences develop over time is still under-explored. In this work, we study the development of musical preferences. Exploring preference consistency between short-term and long-term in data from earlier studies, find that users with higher expertise have more consistent for their top-listened artists tags than...

Pull Requests (PRs) that are neither progressed nor resolved clutter the list of PRs, making it difficult for maintainers to manage and prioritize unresolved PRs. To automatically track, follow up, close such inactive Stale bot was introduced by GitHub. Despite its increasing adoption, there ongoing debates on whether using alleviates or exacerbates problem better understand if how helps projec...

This paper identifies a widely existing phenomenon in web data, which we call the “words of few mouths” phenomenon. This phenomenon, in the context of online reviews, refers to the case that a large fraction of the reviews are each voted only by very few users. We discuss the challenges of “words of few mouths” in the development of recommender systems based on users’ opinions and advocate prob...

There is an abundance of user reviews available online about anything, ranging from commercial products to professors. According to the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), users can elaborate on the relevant information as long as they have the motivation and the cognitive ability to do so. However, the extent of information found online can be so overwhelming that it may exceed the cognitive c...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To elicit detailed descriptions of adolescents' information and support needs in response to their mothers' breast cancer. DESIGN Exploratory, qualitative. SETTING Four different outpatient and inpatient oncology settings in western Canada. SAMPLE 31 adolescent children of women in five illness phases. METHODS 27 semistructured interviews and two focus groups were con...

The current study aimed to develop a Formative Assessment of Writing (FAoW) instrument through operationalizing Black and Wiliam’s (2009) Formative Assessment (FA) and Hattie and Timperley’s (2007) feedback model. Following intuitive approach of scale construction (Hase & Goldberg, 1967), a comprehensive review of the literature was undertaken, and 30 Likert scale items were devised.  The items...

Previous research on peer review considered it as a strategy of improving students’ writing (Baker, 2016; Hu, 2005). To investigate its effectiveness, this has established small corpus based the data from 22 drafts and their corresponding written comments 13,9261 words in total Peerceptiv National Writing Feedback Contest (PNWFC). Then, Python was utilized tool to calculate difference between f...