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A historically important tradition in exegesis, rooted in a number of scriptural passages, considers the Qur'an to be a self-similar text. This claim, while being sharply debated in literature, has never been independently tested. This paper proposes a strategy to measure self-similarity in classical Arabic texts, based on Leven-shtein distance, within the Self-Similar Qur'an (SSQ) project. The significance...
A plethora of recent work leverages historical data to help practitioners better prioritize their software quality assurance efforts. However, the adoption of this prior work in practice remains low. In our work, we identify a set of challenges that need to be addressed to make previous work on quality assurance prioritization more pragmatic. We outline four guidelines that address these challenges...
Virtual communities depend on members, and more specifically new members, for their lifeblood. To become a member of a virtual community, one must introduce oneself to the group, and be accepted as a member. We present here a series of two linguistic studies investigating newcomer introductions in seven Web 2.0 online communities. In the first study, we successfully developed a logistic regression...
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