{"title":"Annotating Online Civic Discussion Threads for Argument Mining","authors":"Gaku Morio","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-39","url":null,"abstract":"Argument mining techniques have become popular in online civic discussion thread analysis to understand an enormous amount of posts and flow of discussions for consensus building. However, the existing corpora and discussion thread analysis haven't discussed argument mining schemes sufficiently. This paper proposes a novel scheme for discussion thread analysis, annotates online civic discussions, and analyzes the annotated corpus. Our scheme consists of novel inner-and inter-post schemes. The inner-post scheme considers a post as a stand-alone discourse in a thread. We perform a micro-level annotation of argument components and relations in a post. The inter-post scheme provides a micro-level inter-post interaction to capture the argumentative reply-to relation. As a result, we have an annotated corpus including 399 threads and 5559 sentences of 204 citizens that is valid and argumentative. In addition, we analyze the annotated corpus to demonstrate statistical and linguistic properties of the corpus.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"2 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116183730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Innovative IPFS-Based Storage Model for Blockchain","authors":"Qiuhong Zheng, Yi Li, Ping Chen, Xinghua Dong","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.000-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.000-8","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain technology has received great attention in recent years. However, the data volume of blockchain grows continuously due to the features that cannot be deleted and can only be added. Currently, the total size of Bitcoin blockchain ledger has reached 200GB. Its high demand for storage space and bandwidth to synchronize data with the network prevents many nodes from joining the network.This is not only not conducive to the expansion of this decentralized network, but also becomes the bottleneck of the development of blockchain technology. This paper proposes an IPFS-based blockchain data storage model to solve this problem.In this paper, the miners deposit the transaction data into the IPFS network and pack the returned IPFS hash of transaction into the block. Utilizing the characteristics of the IPFS network and the features of the IPFS hash, the blockchain data is greatly reduced. The scheme is applied to the Bitcoin blockchain. According to the experimental results, the compression ratio can reach 0.0817. According to the analysis, it also has good performance in terms of security and synchronization speed of new node.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132353302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Manrique, J. Sosa, O. Mariño, B. Nunes, Nicolás Cardozo
{"title":"Investigating Learning Resources Precedence Relations via Concept Prerequisite Learning","authors":"R. Manrique, J. Sosa, O. Mariño, B. Nunes, Nicolás Cardozo","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-89","url":null,"abstract":"The identification of prerequisite relationships among concepts is a fundamental step toward the organization of knowledge for educational purposes. In the context of a learning process, simplest concepts that are requirements to understand and address more complex concepts should be presented first. Therefore, the identification of prerequisite relationships is a fundamental step for effective course design and automatic learning path generation systems. Although there have been recent advances in machine learning methods for the automatic identification of prerequisite relationships between concepts, little research has been done on whether these automatic strategies can be extended to establish precedence relationships among learning resources. The precedence relation between two learning resources establishes which of the resources must be presented first. In this paper, we approach this problem and propose a strategy to identify the precedence relation. Given two learning resources our strategy analyzes prerequisites among the concepts addressed by the learning resources to estimate the precedence relation. A set of 1588 pairs of learning resources extracted from MOOCs refined by human experts is used to evaluate the strategy. The experimental results show that it is possible to identify the precedence relation between learning resources through the automatic identification of prerequisite relationships between concepts.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130156231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Thoms, Evren Eryilmaz, N. Dubin, Rafael Hernandez, Sara Colon-Cerezo
{"title":"Dynamic Visualization of Quality in Online Conversations","authors":"Brian Thoms, Evren Eryilmaz, N. Dubin, Rafael Hernandez, Sara Colon-Cerezo","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-72","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on software designed to visualize levels of quality within online conversational media. Prior to construction, data mining was performed on 2,157 online conversations and examined for attributes of quality. This initial dataset was analyzed for lexical complexity and prompt-specific vocabulary usage and helped guide the redesign of an existing asynchronous online discussion board (AOD). The new design incorporates a real-time quality analyzer and provides users with a visual breakdown of their post in relation to the overall group discussion thread. Results found that the proposed system produced higher levels of overall quality in discussion posts and increased interactions with higher quality discussion posts. Survey results and a social network analysis (SNA) indicate that the proposed system produced higher levels of system satisfaction and group cohesion when compared against control software.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132436263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sentiment Classification on Twitter Data Using Support Vector Machine","authors":"Sheeba Naz, Aditi Sharan, Nidhi Malik","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-13","url":null,"abstract":"Sentiment analysis in Twitter has really engaged interest in field of research. Sentiment classification in Twitter deals with analyzing the tweets in terms of their sentiment polarity. The proposed method deals with twitter sentiment classification by employing a classification model of machine learning domain which makes use of different textual features viz. n-grams of twitter data. Also, we have used three different weighting schemes to understand the impact of weighting on classifier accuracy. Furthermore, a sentiment score vector of tweets is used to provide external knowledge in order to improve the performance of SVM classifier.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131687643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Galuppo Azevedo, Bruno Demattos Nogueira, Fabricio Murai, Ana Paula Couto da Silva
{"title":"Estimation Errors in Network A/B Testing Due to Sample Variance and Model Misspecification","authors":"Francisco Galuppo Azevedo, Bruno Demattos Nogueira, Fabricio Murai, Ana Paula Couto da Silva","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-40","url":null,"abstract":"Companies that offer services on the Web often rely on randomized experiments known as A/B tests for assessing the impact of development and business decisions. During an experiment, each user is randomly redirected to one of two versions of the website, called treatments. Several response models were proposed to describe the behavior of a user in a social network website as a function of the treatment assigned to her and to her neighbors. However, there is no consensus as to which model should be applied to a given dataset. In this work, we propose a new response model, derive theoretical limits for the estimation error of several models, and obtain empirical results for cases where the response model was misspecified.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123542131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Learning Applied to Autonomous Valuation of Financial Assets","authors":"Paulo André Lima de Castro, Marcel Soares Ribeiro","doi":"10.1109/wi.2018.00-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/wi.2018.00-33","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of Artificial Intelligence, Online learning is focused on environments that are not independent and identically distributed, i.e. the environment may changes its behavior as time goes by. Blum proposed a famous algorithm to this problem, which was called randomized weighted majority algorithm. In this paper, we propose an adaptation of such algorithm to autonomous valuation of financial assets. Our approach is based on learning from expert's advices, in order to create a more adaptable solution and reuse some results achieved for other researchers. We also briefly review some papers in the field. The proposed approach is materialized through an online learning algorithm that defines an analysis derived from many different analyses performed by autonomous analysts. Such analysts may be created using techniques from finance or machine learning fields. Our algorithm is able to take into account different costs of analysis errors. We believe that this skill in fundamental to an efficient analyst. We implemented the algorithm and tested it using several different techniques from finance and one (very simple) algorithm from machine learning area. This implementation was tested and the achieved results are analyzed and discussed. Furthermore, we proved that our algorithm's cost of error is limited by an expression of the cost of error of the best autonomous analyst. We believe that this algorithm may contribute to development of better systems that intend to estimate the price of financial assets in an autonomous way.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"2006 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125828834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WI 2018 Program Committee","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/wi.2018.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/wi.2018.00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128328314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Accuracy Question Answering via Hybrid Controlled Natural Language","authors":"Tiantian Gao, Paul Fodor, M. Kifer","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.0-112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.0-112","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) is key to the vision of the intelligent Web. Unfortunately, wide deployment of KRR is hindered by the difficulty in specifying the requisite knowledge, which requires skills that most domain experts lack. A way around this problem could be to acquire knowledge automatically from documents. The difficulty is that, KRR requires high-precision knowledge and is sensitive even to small amounts of errors. Although most automatic information extraction systems developed for general text understandings have achieved remarkable results, their accuracy is still woefully inadequate for logical reasoning. A promising alternative is to ask the domain experts to author knowledge in Controlled Natural Language (CNL). Nonetheless, the quality of knowledge construction even through CNL is still grossly inadequate, the main obstacle being the multiplicity of ways the same information can be described even in a controlled language. Our previous work addressed the problem of high accuracy knowledge authoring for KRR from CNL documents by introducing the Knowledge Authoring Logic Machine (KALM). This paper develops the query aspect of KALM with the aim of getting high precision answers to CNL questions against previously authored knowledge and is tolerant to linguistic variations in the queries. To make queries more expressive and easier to formulate, we propose a hybrid CNL, i.e., a CNL with elements borrowed from formal query languages. We show that KALM achieves superior accuracy in semantic parsing of such queries.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130530441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Rana, R. Gururajan, G. Mackenzie, J. Dunn, A. Gray, Xujuan Zhou, P. Barua, J. Epps, G. Humphris
{"title":"A Novel Framework for Distress Detection through an Automated Speech Processing System","authors":"R. Rana, R. Gururajan, G. Mackenzie, J. Dunn, A. Gray, Xujuan Zhou, P. Barua, J. Epps, G. Humphris","doi":"10.1109/WI.2018.00-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2018.00-29","url":null,"abstract":"Based on our ongoing work, this work in progress project aims to develop an automated system to detect distress in people to enable early referral for interventions to target anxiety and depression, to mitigate suicidal ideation and to improve adherence to treatment. The project will utilize either use existing voice data to assess people into various scales of distress, or will collect voice data as per existing standards of distress measurement, to develop basic computing algorithms required to detect various attributes associated with distress, detected through a person's voice in a telephone call to a helpline. This will be then matched with the already available psychological assessment instruments such as the Distress Thermometer for these persons. In order to trigger interventions, organizational contexts are essential as interventions rely on the type of distress. Therefore, the model will be tested on various organizational settings such as the Police, Emergency and Health along with the Distress detection instruments normally used in a psychological assessment for accuracy and validation. The outcome of the project will culminate in a fully automated integrated system, and will save significant resources to organizations. The translation of the project will be realized in step-change improvements to quality of life within the gamut of public policy.","PeriodicalId":405966,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131762242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}