User:Ahernandez
Alberto Castro-Hernández
Alberto is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) at Miami University.
Dr. Castro-Hernández's research focus at the use of Natural Language Processing to identify group constructs in Global Software Development. He have organized collaborative projects between students from US, Mexico, Panama, United Kingdom, and Turkey.
His scholarly interest include Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining.
Activities
Intro to IRC
How do people interact?
People interact mostly voluntarily (they are not asked directly) and they ask and follow the conversation as they wish. Each person can post one or more messages.
What is the pattern of communication? Is it linear or branched? Formal or informal? One-to-many, one-to-one or a mix?
The communication pattern is free. It follows an informal dialogue in a mix of one-to-many and one-to-one interactions. Replies can be directed to even current, previous or new conversations. The characteristic of replying to a previous conversations shows sometimes there is a "lag" between interactions.
Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning?
They used a lot of terms related to the applications they are working on. But the idea of the conversations is easy to understand.
