Hello All,
My name is Swapnil Hingmire. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria's Computer Science Department.
I work under the supervision of Prof. Neil Ernst.
I request your participation in a research study titled Interpreting Latent Topics in Natural Language Summaries.
Our high-level goal is to understand the major themes discussed on the CESM discussion forums over time.
We are using a topic model (a statistical model of text) to discover such themes.
In this study, we aim to understand how people interpret a topic--- a group of words that are likely to be related. For example, one may think of the words "storm, tropical, hurricane, winds, depression, mph, september, damage, cyclone, august, day, season, rainfall" are about "an extreme weather event in August-September".
Different users will likely have different interpretations of these words. We aim to study such different interpretations.
In this study, you will be asked to interpret five topics and provide their different aspects and rationales behind the inputs.
These topics are inferred on the posts in the CESM discussion forums.
The study will take around 30 minutes. You will be paid CAD 25 to participate in this study.
I have attached the protocol designed for this study.
Participation in this study is entirely voluntary.
You have an option to withdraw from the study at any time.
This is a purely academic research project with no commercial interests.
We will store anonymized data in a public repository to support open research and replication.
Please read the attached Informed Consent letter if you want to participate in the study.
This research has been cleared by the University of Victoria's Human Research Ethics Board (Clearance #23-0425).
Your participation in the research will be important in understanding the interplay between human knowledge and human interpretation of topics.
If you agree to participate, please write to me at swapnilh@uvic.ca. I will then share the next steps involved in the study.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Swapnil Hingmire
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Swapnil Hingmire
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Victoria,
Engineering & Computer Science Building (ECS), Room 561
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada
Email: swapnilh@uvic.ca; swapnilhingmire@gmail.com
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My name is Swapnil Hingmire. I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria's Computer Science Department.
I work under the supervision of Prof. Neil Ernst.
I request your participation in a research study titled Interpreting Latent Topics in Natural Language Summaries.
Our high-level goal is to understand the major themes discussed on the CESM discussion forums over time.
We are using a topic model (a statistical model of text) to discover such themes.
In this study, we aim to understand how people interpret a topic--- a group of words that are likely to be related. For example, one may think of the words "storm, tropical, hurricane, winds, depression, mph, september, damage, cyclone, august, day, season, rainfall" are about "an extreme weather event in August-September".
Different users will likely have different interpretations of these words. We aim to study such different interpretations.
In this study, you will be asked to interpret five topics and provide their different aspects and rationales behind the inputs.
These topics are inferred on the posts in the CESM discussion forums.
The study will take around 30 minutes. You will be paid CAD 25 to participate in this study.
I have attached the protocol designed for this study.
Participation in this study is entirely voluntary.
You have an option to withdraw from the study at any time.
This is a purely academic research project with no commercial interests.
We will store anonymized data in a public repository to support open research and replication.
Please read the attached Informed Consent letter if you want to participate in the study.
This research has been cleared by the University of Victoria's Human Research Ethics Board (Clearance #23-0425).
Your participation in the research will be important in understanding the interplay between human knowledge and human interpretation of topics.
If you agree to participate, please write to me at swapnilh@uvic.ca. I will then share the next steps involved in the study.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Swapnil Hingmire
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Swapnil Hingmire
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Victoria,
Engineering & Computer Science Building (ECS), Room 561
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada
Email: swapnilh@uvic.ca; swapnilhingmire@gmail.com
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