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Toward Robust URL Extraction for Open Science: A Study of arXiv File Formats and Temporal Trends Open

Rochana R. Obadage, Lamia Salsabil, Sawood Alam, Bipasha Banarjee, William A. Ingram , et al. · 2025

In this work, we study how URL extraction results depend on input format. We compiled a pilot dataset by extracting URLs from 10 arXiv papers and used the same heuristic method to extract URLs from four formats derived from the PDF files o…

From Data Deficient to Big Data in Shark Conservation Open

Francesco Ferretti, J. Jenrette, Stefano Moro, Cheryl Butner, Edward A. Fox , et al. · 2025

Geography Biology Computer science

Citizen science is increasingly harnessed worldwide to gather data otherwise requiring a prohibitive investment of funding and time. Meanwhile, the revolution in digital communication offers opportunities from crowdsourcing, big data appro…

What’s in a cue?: Using natural language processing to quantify content characteristics of episodic future thinking in the context of overweight and obesity Open

Haylee Downey, Shuangshuang Xu, S Ahmadi, Aditya Shah, Jeremiah M. Brown , et al. · 2025

Psychology Computer science Medicine

Episodic future thinking (EFT), an intervention in which participants vividly imagine their future, has been explored as a cognitive intervention to reduce delay discounting and decrease engagement in harmful health behaviors. In these stu…

AI-Facilitated Episodic Future Thinking For Adults with Obesity Open

S Ahmadi, Michelle S. Rockwell, Megan Stuart, Nicki Rohani, Allison N. Tegge , et al. · 2025

Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) involves vividly imagining personal future events and experiences in detail. It has shown promise as an intervention to reduce delay discounting-the tendency to devalue delayed rewards in favor of immediate g…

Agentic AI for Improving Precision in Identifying Contributions to Sustainable Development Goals Open

William A. Ingram, Bipasha Banerjee, Edward A. Fox · 2024

Computer science Political science Business

As research institutions increasingly commit to supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a pressing need to accurately assess their research output against these goals. Current approaches, primarily rel…

Automating Chapter-Level Classification for Electronic Theses and Dissertations Open

Bipasha Banerjee, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox · 2024

Computer science

Traditional archival practices for describing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) rely on broad, high-level metadata schemes that fail to capture the depth, complexity, and interdisciplinary nature of these long scholarly works. The…

VTechAGP: An Academic-to-General-Audience Text Paraphrase Dataset and Benchmark Models Open

Ming Cheng, Jiaying Gong, Chenhan Yuan, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox , et al. · 2024

Computer science Geography

Existing text simplification or paraphrase datasets mainly focus on sentence-level text generation in a general domain. These datasets are typically developed without using domain knowledge. In this paper, we release a novel dataset, VTech…

Analyzing Quality, Bias, and Performance in Text-to-Image Generative Models Open

Nila Masrourisaadat, Nazanin Sedaghatkish, Fatemeh Sarshartehrani, Edward A. Fox · 2024

Computer science Philosophy

Advances in generative models have led to significant interest in image synthesis, demonstrating the ability to generate high-quality images for a diverse range of text prompts. Despite this progress, most studies ignore the presence of bi…

ETDPC: A Multimodality Framework for Classifying Pages in Electronic Theses and Dissertations Open

Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox, Jian Wu · 2024

Computer science Philosophy

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) have been proposed, advocated, and generated for more than 25 years. Although ETDs are hosted by commercial or institutional digital library repositories, they are still an understudied type of sc…

ETDPC: A Multimodality Framework for Classifying Pages in Electronic Theses and Dissertations Open

Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox, Jian Wu · 2023

Computer science Philosophy

Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) have been proposed, advocated, and generated for more than 25 years. Although ETDs are hosted by commercial or institutional digital library repositories, they are still an understudied type of sc…

AI Chatbot for Generating Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) Cue Texts for Health Open

Sareh Ahmadi, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science Psychology

We describe an AI-powered chatbot to aid with health improvement by generating Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) cue texts that should reduce delay discounting. In prior studies, EFT has been shown to address maladaptive health behaviors. Tho…

Prediction and optimization of employee turnover intentions in enterprises based on unbalanced data Open

Zhaotian Li, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science

The sudden resignation of core employees often brings losses to companies in various aspects. Traditional employee turnover theory cannot analyze the unbalanced data of employees comprehensively, which leads the company to make wrong decis…

ETDPC-ETD500 Open

Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, Jian Wu, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science

ETDPC has been developed to classify ETD pages into 13 categories. This model uses ETDPC-ETD500, containing 92,371 scanned ETD pages in PNGs. These pages were manually annotated. Later, OCR was performed on all pages using AWS Textract, a …

Retrieval-based Text Selection for Addressing Class-Imbalanced Data in Classification Open

Sareh Ahmadi, Aditya Shah, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science Philosophy

This paper addresses the problem of selecting of a set of texts for annotation in text classification using retrieval methods when there are limits on the number of annotations due to constraints on human resources. An additional challenge…

MetaEnhance-ETDQual500 Open

Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Jian Wu, William A. Ingram , et al. · 2023

Computer science Geography Philosophy

MetaEnhance-ETDQual500 consists of 500 ETD benchmark evaluations (different from ETD500) by combining subsets (i.e., 4 ETD subsets from university, year, department, and degree fields) sampled using multiple criteria. The selection criteri…

AutoMeta-ETD500 Open

Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Jian Wu, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Biology

AutoMeta-ETD500 contains 500 scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This dataset is used to develop a framework called AutoMeta, which automatically extracts seven key metadata fields (e.g., title, author, advisor, university,…

Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) 2023 Open

Mat Kelly, Brenda Reyes Ayala, Zhiwu Xie, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science Art

The 2023 edition of the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) will explore the integration of web archiving and digital libraries. The workshop aims at addressing aspects covering the entire life cycle of digital resources…

Maximizing Equitable Reach and Accessibility of ETDs Open

William A. Ingram, Jian Wu, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science Philosophy Medicine

This poster addresses accessibility issues of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in digital libraries (DLs). ETDs are available primarily as PDF files, which present barriers to equitable access, especially for users with visual im…

Who can Submit an Excellent Review for this Manuscript in the Next 30 Days? - Peer Reviewing in the Age of Overload Open

Hamed Alhoori, Edward A. Fox, Ingo Frommholz, Haiming Liu, Corinna Coupette , et al. · 2023

Computer science Psychology Political science

With millions of research articles published yearly, the peer review process is in danger of collapsing, especially in 'hot' areas with popular conferences. Challenges arise from the large number of manuscripts submitted, skyrocketing use …

Integrated Digital Library System for Long Documents and their Elements Open

Satvik Chekuri, Prashant Chandrasekar, Bipasha Banerjee, Sung Hee Park, Nila Masrourisaadat , et al. · 2023

Computer science Art

We describe a next-generation integrated Digital Library (DL) system that addresses the numerous goals associated with long documents such as Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). Our extensible workflow-centric design supports a var…

A New Annotation Method and Dataset for Layout Analysis of Long Documents Open

Aman Ahuja, Kevin Dinh, Brian Dinh, William A. Ingram, Edward A. Fox · 2023

Computer science

Parsing long documents, such as books, theses, and dissertations, is an important component of information extraction from scholarly documents. Layout analysis methods based on object detection have been developed in recent years to help w…

Supplementary Figure 4 from Molecular Ontogeny of Donor-Derived Follicular Lymphomas Occurring after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Open