Victoria Rubin

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As a journalist or web-content producer, do you imagine any technology being helpful to you in reporting news?

I'm curious to hear from practitioners in the newsroom. 1. Are there any mundane tasks that you are tired of doing and you wished you could off-load to some "magic wand" technology? 2. What would...

24 April 2017 7,350 4 View

Is there a phenomenon of "elderly lies"?

I recently spoke to a group of seniors and was confronted with a simple question that I've never thought about before. See my fuller account of the event in the link. What is an elderly lie,...

31 May 2016 5,049 3 View

What are the best ways to content-analyze social media streams?

I'm looking for recent developments in automated analysis of Twitter, Facebook, or any other text-based social media streams. What are researchers able to extract? How are facts gathered,...

02 June 2015 9,426 9 View

How do you determine whether a news source is reputable? Or a news story is reliable?

We are thinking through some of the problems in distinguishing reputable news from phony ones. What might give you a clue that an online story you are reading is bogus, fake, or unreliable? We'd...

21 May 2015 6,555 41 View

Is there a good alternative to the NLTK to teach text processing with Python?

I'm just curious about what other Natural Language Processing instructors might be using as introductory NLP packages, esp. to non-experienced programmers. Any thoughts? I'd much appreciate your...

27 March 2015 436 19 View

Do you have any advice for Content Analysis software?

What software package would you recommend to use for Content Analysis (CA), and why? I'm talking about Klaus Krippendorff-style CA, as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_analysis...

28 November 2014 2,776 24 View

Where can I find English-French/French-English resources?

I'm interested in any resources that can support the following 3 tasks: 1) cross-lingual information seeking (e.g., query formulation support, searching, browsing, retrieving, or evaluating search...

24 October 2014 7,121 3 View

Have you ever searched the web across languages?

If so, which resources do you use, and for what language pairs? What have you learned or discovered works well for you? Why would you search in a foreign language? Well, perhaps you need to find...

14 October 2014 8,457 15 View

Deception in various cultural contexts: does anything justify a lie, in your worldview?

Deception is fundamentally human, but how do various cultures interpret and judge deceptive behavior? In hopes of sparking a discussion, I argue in one of my recent articles...

15 July 2014 6,637 42 View

Is multilingual global marketing successful?

I'm reading about "linguistically faithful" and "culturally sensitive" global campaigns (marketing, advertising, promotions, etc.) Have you run into related studies? Ever witnessed any amazing...

09 July 2014 3,967 7 View

How can we support multi-lingualism in multi-cultural environments (schools, for instance)?

This BBC reportage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27281414) says a London (UK) school has 600 children with 42 different languages among them. Is it that unusual? It made me think of a local...

05 May 2014 9,373 6 View

How is your libraries dealing with foreign language resources (in terms of information organization, access, and curation)?

How does your library (or institution) deal with foreign language information (as well as bi-, tri-, multilingual materials and resources) in terms of organizing it? Have you had any issues? Have...

31 March 2014 9,519 11 View

How would you access news (or any other information) in a language you don't know?

Say, you want to know what the Russian and Ukrainian online news are saying about the recent Kiev events and the EU Summit? Or, say, you'd like to see first hand what the Chinese or Malaysian...

28 March 2014 1,540 28 View

Do you know instances of lying that can impact big data analytics results?

A BBC article reports on the use of big data analytics for predicting successful matches on dating websites (bbc.in/1jqhDWj); for instance, they find the 3 most predictive questions couple agree...

26 March 2014 7,195 30 View

Is anyone familiar with Information Access Across Languages?

I'm currently looking for active projects and literature about tools, technologies, and methodologies for accessing information (primarily text) in multiple languages. I'm aware of several...

25 March 2014 5,868 3 View

How many pages of text does an average academic read during his or her carrier?

Do you know? Is there any good way to estimate how much we read? In terms of cited publications, or hours of work per lifetime, or anything similar? Including or excluding leisure reading? How...

27 February 2014 1,325 10 View

Detecting concealed information? Secrecy? Are there verbal cues?

Does anyone know of any linguistic, computational, and/or psychological research on identifying verbal cues that could indicate information concealment (and/or secrecy)? If so, I'd appreciate your...

30 January 2014 5,182 10 View

Assuming that most data (big or not) tends to have errors, what about data quality and veracity? Is your Big Data messy?

What would you suggest for big data cleansing techniques? Is your big data messy? If so, how (or how much) does it affect your work / research? How do you get rid of noise? How do you verify big...

14 January 2014 1,954 17 View