TOMSK, Nov 18 – RIA Tomsk, Karina Sapunova. Scientists of the Tomsk State University (TSU) work on system which will allow to create image of university according to information from social networks; in future technology can be used by drawing up the first Russian rating of leading universities, head of center of perspective researches in social and cognitive sciences Mikhail Myagkov told.
Earlier it was reported that scientists of TSU laboratories of sciences about big data and problems of society studied extremist communities by means of information from social networks. "Risk groups" were selected by means of linguistic markers: key phrases of "extremist lexicon".
"When a state invests money in university, it needs to understand if it is successful. We create universities to train students that they were professionals. How can we measure this success? It is possible through developments, communications with the industry, satisfaction of employers. There is still very convenient area for measurements - it is a so-called image of university in social networks", – Myagkov told.
He specified that at the first stage, as well as in a case with studying of extremism, it is necessary to make the dictionary of words markers. "On the basis of neural networks, machine training it will begin to acquire various terms, phrases which belong to information which in social networks is posted by our key participants", – the scientist explained.
According to him, this will allow to estimate the attitude of entrants, students and their parents to university, and reputation of higher education institution among employers. Desire to enter the university, satisfaction of employers with university graduates; with programs of training, level of living conditions for students can be among criteria. Images of the first 20 higher education institutions of the Russian Federation are planned to be created in 2017.Myagkov, who enters the working group on drawing up the first Russian international rating of higher education institutions, added that this tool can be used at assessment of higher education institutions of Russia and of other countries participating in rating in the future.
The rector of the Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichii suggested to create the Moscow international rating of universities "Three Missions of University". The first Russian rating will estimate the educational mission and scientific work of higher education institution, its communication with society. Results are planned to be published next autumn.