Introduction The World Wide Web (hereafter simply referred to as the Web) is a large-scale digital compendium of information that covers practically every sphere of human interest and endeavour. For this reason it should come as no surprise that the Web has been an important focus of attention for the epistemological community. To date, search engines (Heintz, 2006; Miller & Record, 2013; Simps...

The great project of the World Wide Web has succeeded a large portion of the world’s information is now instantly accessible through open protocols and open presentation formats. The Web is as Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned it, a vast resource of interconnected knowledge. Yet that resource exists in a universe of its own. Meanwhile the real world has become crowded with connected devices, none ...

F THE IMPORTANCE of developments were to be measured solely in terms of their popular press coverage, then probably the most significant development to have sprung from the world of high energy physics in the last few years would not be the discovery of the top quark, or even the demise of the SSC, but rather the development of the World Wide Web. This tool (often referred to as WWW or simply a...

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ON THE INTERNETand the World Wide Web have tended to drive online pedagogy. It is time to reverse this relationship and make the needs of teaching and learning take priority. The authors propose three different formats for utilizing the Web in online and classroom instruction. These formats were developed in a program for undergraduate legal studies dealing with three lev...

The paper attempts to demonstrate how Conversation Analysis (CA) can help us pragmatically to explore the repair organization of human talk-in-interaction via the Web, and reports on a case study of conversational repair structures for Chinese academic discussion through Web. The data collection was based on naturally occurring written interaction on Web-based discussion boards from teacher edu...

In this chapter we describe techniques for adaptive presentation of content on the Web. We first describe techniques to select and structure the content deemed to be most relevant for the current user in the current interaction context. We then illustrate approaches that deal with the problem of how to adaptively deliver this content.

Users often encounter unreliable information on the Web, but there is no system to check the credibility easily and efficiently. In this paper, we propose a system to search useful information for checking the credibility of uncertain facts. The objective of our system is to help users to efficiently judge the credibility by comparing other facts related to the input uncertain fact without chec...