• Text mining StackOverflow: an insight into challenges and subject-related difficulties faced by computer science learners 

  Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E (Emerald, 2016)

  Purpose The use of social media and in particular community Q&A websites by learners has increased significantly in recent years. The vast amounts of data posted on these sites provide an opportunity to investigate ...
• Genetic programming based predictions and estimations for the endurance and retention of NAND flash memory devices 

  Hogan, Damien (University of Limerick, 2013)

  The central hypothesis of this thesis is that it is possible to use a supervised machine learning technique, Genetic Programming (GP), to make accurate predictions and estimations regarding the endurance and retention ...
• National health models and the adoption of eHealth and ePrescribing in primary care – new evidence from Europe 

  Brennan, James Edmund; McElligott, Annette; Power, Norah (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2015)

  Objective Recent research from the European Commission (EC) suggests that the development and adoption of eHealth in primary care is significantly influenced by the context of the national health model in operation. This ...
• Spectral precedence methodologies in spatial auditory research: perceptual evaluation of spatial attributes in 2D and 3D virtual auditory display environments 

  Doyle, Tony (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Sounds are space specific. That is, the spectral content of a sound suggests a perception that resides along the three co-ordinates of physical space; front to back, left to right and up to down. Each of these corresponds ...
• Grammatical evolution + multi-cores = automatic parallel programming! 

  Gopinath, Chennupati (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Multi-core processors are shared memory multiprocessors integrated on a single chip which offer significantly higher processing power than traditional, single core processors. However, as the number of cores available on ...
• Adoption of national electronic prescribing services in primary care in Europe - policy lessons for Ireland 

  Brennan, James Edmund (University of Limerick, 2015)

  A growing body of evidence over the past twenty years suggests that electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) can bring a host of benefits to the health sector, and some policy makers now view ePrescribing as a desirable ...
• Months backward test: a review of its use in clinical studies 

  Meagher, James; Leonard, Maeve; Donoghue, Laura; O’Regan, Niamh; Timmons, Suzanne; Exton, Chris; Cullen, Walter; Dunne, Colum; Adamis, Dimitrios; Maclullich, Alasdair J; Meagher, David (Baishideng Publishing Group Inc., 2015)

  To review the use of the Months Backwards Test (MBT) in clinical and research contexts. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of reports relating to the MBT based upon a search of PsychINFO and MEDLINE between ...
• A hybrid approach to the problem of class imbalance 

  Fitzgerald, Jeannie; Ryan, Conor (2013)

  In Machine Learning classification tasks, the class imbalance problem is an important one which has received a lot of attention in the last few years. In binary classification, class imbalance occurs when there ...
• Selection bias and generalisation error in genetic programming 

  Fitzgerald, Jeannie; Ryan, Conor (Association for Computing Machinery, 2014)

  There have been many studies undertaken to determine the efficacy of parameters and algorithmic components of Genetic Programming, but historically, generalization considerations have not been of central importance in ...
• Automatic mapping of user tags to Wikipedia concepts: the case of a Q & A website - StackOverflow 

  Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  The uncontrolled nature of user-assigned tags makes them prone to various inconsistencies caused by spelling variations, synonyms, acronyms, and hyponyms. These inconsistencies in turn lead to some of the common problems ...
• Predicting the quality of a translation from attributes of a translator 

  Nishio, Naoto (University of Limerick, 2015)

  The evaluation of the quality of a translation is still a time consuming manual operation depending on human intervention. Confidence Estimation (CE) explores the prediction of the quality of a translation from the ...
• Competence and motivation in volunteer translators: the example of the translation commons 

  De Wille, Tabea (University of Limerick, 2014)

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• The impact of task difficulty and performance scores on student engagement and progression 

  Lynch, Raymond; Patten, James Vincent; Hennessy, Jennifer (Taylor and Francis, 2013)

  Background: This article considers the impact of differential task difficulty on student engagement and progression within an Irish primary school context. Gaining and maintaining student engagement during learning tasks ...
• Motivation: a proposed taxonomy using gamification 

  Exton, Geraldine; Murray, Liam (2014)

  This paper aims to propose a taxonomy of gamification, where a non-exhaustive list of game elements, or mechanics, are separated out from their game contexts. They are then linked with three specific components of motivation, ...
• Onboarding in software engineering 

  Yates, Rebecca Yolande (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Many software developers struggle to understand code written by others, leading to increased maintenance costs. Research on program comprehension to date has primarily focused on individual developers attempting to ...
• Digital content development: the impact of global content development guidelines on the usability, readability and translatability of online user assistance documentation 

  Ryan, Lorcan (University of Limerick, 2014)

  The original contribution to knowledge from this study is a set of evidence showing that the application of global content development guidelines (GCDGs) has a measurable impact on the human usability, readability and ...
• Space in multi-channel electroacoustic music: developing sound spatialisation techniques for composing multi-channel electroacoustic music with emphasis on spatial attribute perception 

  Lynch, Hugh Adam (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Only a small number of perceptual investigations of multi-channel electroacoustic music have been undertaken to date. Consequently, an established method for the elicitation of perceptual responses from listeners is ...
• Analysing the changing trajectory of South Korea’s ICT business environment 

  Callinan, Nigel (University of Limerick, 2014)

  This thesis aims to provide a new perspective on the development of South Korea’s Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Business Environment by taking a cross-disciplinary look at the area. Most studies on this ...
• Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 

  Filip, David; McCance, Shaun; Lewis, Dave; Lieske, Christian; Lommel, Arle; Kosek, Jirka; Sasaki, Felix; Savourel, Yves (W3C, 2013)

  The technology described in this document Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 enhances the foundation to integrate automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many commonalities ...
• XLIFF Version 2.0 

  Comerford, Tom; Filip, David; Rodolfo M.Raya; Savourel, Yves (OASIS, 2014)

  This document defines version 2.0 of the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF). The purpose of this vocabulary is to store localizable data and carry it from one step of the localization process to the other, ...

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