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This paper presents the findings of a study exploring the information practices of members of a religious organization. Its focus is the “Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery.” Particularly, this paper focuses on the study's findings in relation to participants’ information practices in constructing their understanding of “the Temple.” The study is infor...
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An information search trail recommendation method based on the Markov chain model and case-based reasoning is proposed. A laboratory user experiment was designed to evaluate the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrated that novice searchers have a positive attitude toward the search trail recommendation and a willingness to use the re...
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With the development of mobile technologies, voice search is becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. By investigating the general usage of voice search and user perception about voice search systems, this research aims to understand users’ voice search behavior. We are particularly interested in how users perform voice search, their top...
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Online companies face large user populations, making segmentation a daunting exercise. Demonstrating an approach that facilitates user segmentation, this research leverages product dissemination and product impact metrics with normalized Shannon entropy. Using 4,653 products from an international news and media organization with 134,364,449 user-pr...
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It is necessary and important to understand public responses to crises, including disease outbreaks. Traditionally, surveys have played an essential role in collecting public opinion, while nowadays, with the increasing popularity of social media, mining social media data serves as another popular tool in opinion mining research. To understand the ...
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In this paper, we report the results of a meta-analysis of 50 publications on international Open Government Data (OGD) practices instantiated via their OGD sites or portals. Specific information about 67 individual countries’/regions’ OGD sites was extracted and compared, including the levels of OGDs, the number and types of data formats, the numbe...
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Governments across the globe are continually working to improve infrastructure for their people. Today, the precise and accurate understanding of the factors that significantly affect public sector employees is one of the utmost crucial challenges for the adoption of e-government services in Pakistan. Without adequate knowledge of these factors, th...
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With increasing globalization, news from different countries, and even in different languages, has become readily available and has become a way for many people to learn about other cultures. As people around the world become more reliant on social media, the impact of fake news on public society also increases. However, most of the fake news detec...
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With the globalization of data, online social media plays an active role in spreading information and classifying people, and thinking about how to break the solidification of algorithms becomes critical. Current algorithmic research in the social media space often focuses on a single service or language, mainly due to the lack of a way to connect ...
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With the increasing abundance of literature resources, how to acquire knowledge elements efficiently and accurately is the key to achieving accurate literature retrieval and utilization of available literature resources. The identification of the structure function of academic documents is a fundamental work to meet the above requirements. In this ...
