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The Knowledge Grid: A Platform to Increase the Interoperability of Computable Knowledge and Produce Advice for Health
(2018)
Here we demonstrate how more highly interoperable computable knowledge enables systems to generate large quantities of evidence-based advice for health. We first provide a thorough analysis of advice. Then, because advice ...
Axiomatic Analysis of Unsupervised Diversity on Large-Scale High-dimensional Data
(2021)
Diversity is a concept widely used in every corner of our society. It represents the "breadth" of a set of objects, which needs to be promoted or reduced in different scenarios. Though many people have discussed it, how ...
Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and High-Tech Economies in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
(2020)
How do rural regions reframe and reinvent themselves through contemporary modes of high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship? How do pushes for rural development prepare the rural to be incorporated into technological ...
Seeing the Invisible: Understanding the Implications of Social Media Invisible Responses for Well-Being and Relational Development
(2020)
Large swathes of current social media scholarship monolithically treats browsing behaviors as passive behaviors, per the passive versus active behaviors approach to social media activities. Such labeling fails to capture ...
The Social Construction of Risk in Trustworthy Digital Repository Audit and Certification
(2018)
This dissertation examines the social construction of risk in trustworthy digital repository (TDR) certification. It focuses on the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) process, which is administered by ...
The Design and Evaluation of Neural Attention Mechanisms for Explaining Text Classifiers
(2019)
The last several years have seen a surge of interest in interpretability in AI and machine learning--the idea of producing human-understandable explanations for AI model behavior. This interest has grown out of concerns ...
Online and Offline Adaptation among Transnational Newcomers: Technology-mediated Social Exchange and Trust Development
(2021)
Transnational newcomers, i.e., foreign-born populations who move to a new country, rely on social media technologies to support their adaptation, but little research has investigated technology designs’ influences on their ...
"Methodologies of Engagement": Locating Archives in Post-Apartheid Memory Practices.
(2013)
Post-apartheid South Africa represents a period in which practices of collective memory were fundamentally reshaped in support of political transformation. In my dissertation, I examine archival thinking and practice through ...
Scientific Analysis by the Crowd: A System for Implicit Collaboration between Experts, Algorithms, and Novices in Distributed Work.
(2013)
Crowd sourced strategies have the potential to increase the throughput of tasks historically constrained by the performance of individual experts. A critical open question is how to configure crowd-based mechanisms, such ...
End-to-end Learning for Mining Text and Network Data
(2017)
A wealth of literature studies user behaviors in online communities, e.g., how users respond to information that are spreading over social networks. One way to study user responses is to analyze user-generated text, by ...