Edward A. Fox

Beyond Topic Matching: Goal-Conditioned Evaluation of Research Contributions in ETD Collections

The loss of fidelity shows that intermediate teacher evaluations provide useful supervision for approximating the evaluative function, and whether reducing the influence of intermediate teacher evaluations improves or impairs approximation is tested by comparing plain binary cross-entropy with weighting, masking, and h...

End-to-End Contextualized URL Extraction from Scholarly Papers

Structured Knowledge Graph for Scholarly Exploration: IR and QA System for ETDs and their Elements

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) contain rich and detailed scholarly knowledge, but accessing that remains difficult. Conventional search systems largely operate at the document level and provide only coarse access to long-form academic writing. Though large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent response...

Beyond Topic Matching: Goal-Conditioned Evaluation of Research Contributions in ETD Collections

Evaluating whether scholarly research contributes to a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) requires an interpretive framework that combines the goal definition, its targets, contribution criteria, and the document itself. Instruction-tuned large language models can instantiate this framework in context, producing a cons...