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“margaret e roberts”

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  • Censored

    Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

    by Margaret E. Roberts ...
    A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Text as Data

    A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

    by Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart ...
    A guide for using computational text analysis to learn about the social worldFrom social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented insights into fundamental questions in the social sciences, humanities, and industry. Meanwhile new machine learning ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    by Bing Liu ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
    Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyzes people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural language processing and is also widely studied in data mining, Web mining, and text mining. In fact, this research has spread outside of computer science to the management sciences ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Educational Research: a Beginner's Guide

    by Allyson Sesay ...
    This book presents a rudimentary exposure to the fi eld of educational research and an attempt to allay the unwarranted fear of those who perceive research as a highly technical and complex scholarly activity carried out by persons in the sciences. The author takes the position that anyone can do research and that it can be an interesting and very worthwhile experience. Educational research, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Research Methodologies in Translation Studies

    by Gabriela Saldanha, Sharon O'Brien ...
    As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Computational Social Science

    Discovery and Prediction

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible tools to sift through the data and recognize patterns in that data; there are now many sophisticated models that we can use to make sense of those patterns; and we have extremely powerful computational systems that help us accomplish these ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • New Advances in Intelligence and Security Informatics

    by Wenji Mao, FeiYue Wang ...
    The Intelligent Systems Series comprises titles that present state of the art knowledge and the latest advances in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. Traditionally, Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research and applications have focused on information sharing and data mining, social network ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Egocentric Network Analysis

    Foundations, Methods, and Models

    by Brea L. Perry, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Stephen P. Borgatti ...
    Series Book 44 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being employed in communications, informatics, and business and marketing studies. Egocentric network analysis requires a unique set of data collection and analysis skills that overlap only minimally with other network methodologies. ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix

    by Danielle S. McNamara, Arthur C. Graesser, Philip M. McCarthy, Zhiqiang Cai ...
    Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix describes this computational tool, as well as the wide range of language and discourse measures it provides. Part I of the book focuses on the theoretical perspectives that led to the development of Coh-Metrix, its measures, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Linguistics, Neurology, and Politics of Phonics

    Silent "E" Speaks Out

    by Steven L. Strauss ...
    This book explores the driving forces behind the current government-sponsored resurrection of phonics, and the arguments used to justify it. It examines the roles played by three key actors--corporate America, politicians, and state-supported reading researchers--in the formulation of what Strauss terms the neophonics political program. Essential for researchers, students, and teachers of literacy ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Applied Social Science Methodology

    An Introductory Guide

    by John Gerring, Dino Christenson ...
    This textbook provides a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to methodological issues encountered by the various social science disciplines. It emphasizes applications, with detailed examples, so that readers can put these methods to work in their research. Within a unified framework, John Gerring and Dino Christenson integrate a variety of methods - descriptive and causal, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making

    Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson

    Edited by Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer ...
    It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors ... Read more

    $70.99 USD