Team 16 in the fall 2018 course "CS 4984/5984 Big Data Text Summarization," in partnership with the University Libraries and the Digital Library Research Laboratory, prepared a corpus of electronic theses and dissertations ...

This submission describes the work of the Solr team as part of the IDEAL project with the main goal of designing and developing a distributed search infrastructure. It includes the project reports, final presentations, as ...

We analyzed how a company's response on social media (Twitter) can affect their stock market value following a data breach. Given a list of all data breaches since 2006 we collected their stock value for 150 days before ...

The problem-project based learning described in our presentation and report addresses automatic summarization of web content using natural language processing. Initially, we used simple techniques such as word frequencies ...

This technical document covers the contemplative practices interview project. This project is a part of the CS 4624 Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access capstone course at Virginia Tech. This report aims to ...

In the United States, every state has a tourism website. These sites highlight the main attractions of the state, travel tips, and blog posts among other relevant information. The funding for these websites often comes ...

The Integrated Digital Event Archiving and Library (IDEAL) project of Virginia Tech provides services for searching, browsing, analysis, and visualization of over 1 billion tweets and over 65 million webpages. The project ...

The IDEAL (Integrated Digital Event Archiving and Library) and Global Event and Trend Archive Research (GETAR) projects aim to build a robust Information Retrieval (IR) system by retrieving tweets and webpages from social ...

Inside Airbnb is a project by Murray Cox, a digital storyteller, who visualized Airbnb data that was scraped by author and coder Tom Slee. The website offers scraped Airbnb data for select cities around the world; historically ...

Dakota Access Pipeline Protests (known with the hashtag #NoDAPL) are grassroots movements that began in April 2016 in reaction to the approved construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern ...