Suggestions
Hi Bahare, thanks for the feedback! I doubt I'll have time to enact changes based on all your suggestions, but they're appreciated in any case.
>Linking Sentences in Asynchronous Conversations The sentence “Linking sentences in an asynchronous conversation is the process of determining, given a sentence in the conversation, the earlier sentence to which it refers.” seems a bit complicated for me. Non-native speakers might have troubles understanding the sentence.
- I'll split it into a couple of sentences to make it more readable.
>Abstract It might be better to not to put the list of contents on the very first part of the abstract. Instead you can briefly go through the contents.
- I'm not quite sure what you mean here; could you please clarify?
>Asynchronous Conversations It should be explained more.
- You gave a couple of examples of things you feel need clarification; is there anything else you feel is insufficiently explained in this section?
“Asynchronous conversations, however, can fracture into tree structures”. How can it fracture into tree structures? Does figure 1 indicate the tree structure? If it does, I cannot map the figure with a tree structure.
- Figure 1 does indicate tree structure; the indentation indicates childhood of one post to another. Common visualizations of file system directory trees are the same. I'll try to be more explicit in the figure caption, and I'll revisit the explanation in the text.
“a participant (or poster) can reply to any existing post” Where is a reply sample in this picture?
- The fact that sentence 6 appears above sentence 5 rather than below it is because it is in reply to the post with sentences 3 and 4. I'll try to make it more explicit in the figure caption.
You may want to add a simple synchronous conversation to make things easier to understand.
- I had assumed that since all face-to-face conversations are synchronous, that wouldn't be necessary; but I'll consider it if time permits.
“Due to their continuing proliferation online, the exploration and analysis of asynchronous conversations are of significant interest to researchers.” I did not get the idea of why they are important to study?
- I'll be more explicit about this in the text. The main issue is that methods to analyse synchronous conversations don't always work well with asynchronous conversations due to the structural differences, and so new/modified techniques need to be discovered.
You may want to separate figure 2a and 2b or draw a line to separate them. (And one other suggestion could be to add the “a” in the figure below the corresponding part.
- I'll consider this if time permits.
It might be a good idea to add some background about “sentiment analysis”. I’m not familiar with NLP and so going through different links to get the background is not a good idea. “Word embedding” has not been explained in the background too.
- sentiment analysis is only tangentially related to this page as an interesting application of links; since it isn't directly related to the hypothesis, I'm hesitant to spend extra time on it. Word embeddings are more directly related, but I doubt I'll have time to add much about that.
>Procedure It is usually better to add the figure after the explanation about that. Figure 3 has been added before the explanation. You may want to add it after starting to talk about that (maybe in the result section).
- Agreed, but when I tried it, it did some annoying things due to its proximity to Figure 4. If time permits I may fiddle with it again.
The page is awesome. Even if you don't have time to go through these issues, it is still great.
It's maybe because I don't know much NLP. Others might understand these things easily.
Cheers,