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 ...

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 ...

Actin filaments (F-actins) are long, double-stranded, helical biopolymers that make up the cytoskeleton along with microtubules and intermediate filaments. In order to better understand the self-assembly process of actin ...

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 ...

The goal of this work is to generate summaries of two Maryland shooting events from a large collection of web pages related to a shooting at Great Mills High School and another at the Capital Gazette newsroom. Since our ...

An abstract book for the research symposium held on November 30, 2018, in Hahn Hall South Atrium.

Opinion Mining Summarization is a Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access capstone project proposed by Xuan Zhang to Dr. Edward Fox. The purpose of the project is to generate a suite of tools that can generate useful ...

In order to understand and track emerging trends in school violence, there is no better resource than our current population. Sixty-eight million Americans have a Twitter account and with the help of the GETAR (Global ...

The Global Event and Trend Archive Research (GETAR) project is supported by NSF (IIS-1619028 and 1619371) through 2019. It will devise interactive, integrated, digital library/archive systems coupled with linked and ...

A short reflection on the 2017 winner of the Virginia Tech History Department's Digital History Prize.