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Automatic Construction of Multi-faceted User Profiles using Text Clustering and its Application to Expert Recommendation and Filtering Problems
In the information age we are living in today, not only are we interested in
accessing multimedia objects such as documents, videos, etc. but also in
searching for professional experts, people or celebrities, possibly for
professional needs or just for fun. Information access systems need to be able
to extract and exploit various sources of information (usually in text format)
about such individuals, and to represent them in a suitable way usually in the
form of a profile. In this article, we tackle the problems of profile-based
expert recommendation and document filtering from a machine learning
perspective by clustering expert textual sources to build profiles and capture
the different hidden topics in which the experts are interested. The experts
will then be represented by means of multi-faceted profiles. Our experiments
show that this is a valid technique to improve the performance of expert
finding and document filtering
A European research agenda for lifelong learning
It is a generally accepted truth that without a proper educational system no country will prosper, nor will its inhabitants. With the arrival of the post-industrial society, in Europe and elsewhere, it has become increasingly clear that people should continue learning over their entire life-spans lest they or their society suffer the dire consequences. But what does this future lifelong learning society exactly look like? And how then should education prepare for it? What should people learn and how should they do so? How can we afford to pay for all this, what are the socio-economic constraints of the move towards a lifelong-learning society? And, of course, what role can and should the educational establishment of schools and universities play? This are questions that demand serious research efforts, which is what this paper argues for
Committee-Based Profiles for Politician Finding
One step towards breaking down barriers between citizens and politicians is to help
people identify those politicians who share their concerns. This paper is set in the field
of expert finding and is based on the automatic construction of politiciansâ profiles
from their speeches on parliamentary committees. These committee-based profiles are
treated as documents and are indexed by an information retrieval system. Given a query
representing a citizenâs concern, a profile ranking is then obtained. In the final step, the
different results for each candidate are combined in order to obtain the final politician
ranking. We explore the use of classic combination strategies for this purpose and present
a new approach that improves state-of-the-art performance and which is more stable
under different conditions. We also introduce a two-stage model where the identification
of a broader concept (such as the committee) is used to improve the final politician
ranking.This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministerio de EconomıÌa y Competitividad under projects TIN2013-42741-P and TIN2016-77902-C3-2-P, and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF-FEDER)
LDA-based Term Profiles for Expert Finding in a Political Setting
A common task in many political institutions (i.e. Parliament) is to find
politicians who are experts in a particular field. In order to tackle this
problem, the first step is to obtain politician profiles which include their
interests, and these can be automatically learned from their speeches. As a
politician may have various areas of expertise, one alternative is to use a set
of subprofiles, each of which covers a different subject. In this study, we
propose a novel approach for this task by using latent Dirichlet allocation
(LDA) to determine the main underlying topics of each political speech, and to
distribute the related terms among the different topic-based subprofiles. With
this objective, we propose the use of fifteen distance and similarity measures
to automatically determine the optimal number of topics discussed in a
document, and to demonstrate that every measure converges into five strategies:
Euclidean, Dice, Sorensen, Cosine and Overlap. Our experimental results showed
that the scores of the different accuracy metrics of the proposed strategies
tended to be higher than those of the baselines for expert recommendation
tasks, and that the use of an appropriate number of topics has proved relevant
Surveillance, big data and democracy: lessons for Australia from the US and UK
This article argues that current laws are ill-equipped to deal with the multifaceted threats to individual privacy by governments, corporations and our own need to participate in the information society.
Introduction
In the era of big data, where people find themselves surveilled in ever more finely granulated aspects of their lives, and where the data profiles built from an accumulation of data gathered about themselves and others are used to predict as well as shape their behaviours, the question of privacy protection arises constantly. In this article we interrogate whether the discourse of privacy is sufficient to address this new paradigm of information flow and control. What we confront in this area is a set of practices concerning the collection, aggregation, sharing, interrogation and uses of data on a scale that crosses private and public boundaries, jurisdictional boundaries, and importantly, the boundaries between reality and simulation. The consequences of these practices are emerging as sometimes useful and sometimes damaging to governments, citizens and commercial organisations. Understanding how to regulate this sphere of activity to address the harms, to create an infrastructure of accountability, and to bring more transparency to the practices mentioned, is a challenge of some complexity. Using privacy frameworks may not provide the solutions or protections that ultimately are being sought.
This article is concerned with data gathering and surveillance practices, by business and government, and the implications for individual privacy in the face of widespread collection and use of big data. We will firstly outline the practices around data and the issues that arise from such practices. We then consider how courts in the United Kingdom (âUKâ) and the United States (âUSâ) are attempting to frame these issues using current legal frameworks, and finish by considering the Australian context. Notably the discourse around privacy protection differs significantly across these jurisdictions, encompassing elements of constitutional rights and freedoms, specific legislative schemes, data protection, anti-terrorist and criminal laws, tort and equity. This lack of a common understanding of what is or what should be encompassed within privacy makes it a very fragile creature indeed.
On the basis of the exploration of these issues, we conclude that current laws are ill-equipped to deal with the multifaceted threats to individual privacy by governments, corporations and our own need to participate in the information society
INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: DIGITAL LITERACY AND THE NATIONAL READING CAMPAIGN
This study attempts to describe the history of how the Norwegian language policy in the
Nordic Council and The European Global Language Policy at the European Commission are
implemented in The National Library Strategy 2020-2023 in Norway and its relevance across
Intercultural Communication.
Innovation for a democratic Language Technology infrastructure aims to participate in
quality education for Literacy, prioritizing Universal Design Development on children's inclusion
for social development and a sustainable future. The Research field based on Hermeneutics,
Epistemology, Ethics and methodology, are a main foundation for Universal design . (Areskoug
Josefsson, Haarr, K. H., Eriksen, S. S., & Brossard BĂžrhaug, F. 2022)
Norway holds the chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 20221 and also the
chairmanship of the Network for Nordic Language Committees.2 In this connection, the focus on
challenges concerning minority children inclusion in schools, libraries, and intercultural language
centers3
, and how the development and use of language technology can contribute to supporting
the Nordic countries' language policies and digital plans is a priority. (Regjeringen; sprakteknologi
og de nordiske sprakene, 2022)
The National Library, through the Council of language in Norway, has initiated a
discussion based on the debate between digital transition and languages policies: âIn today's
language technology landscape, school children and teachers experience that software and writing
support offered by the major international technology giants in the school does not reflect the
official spelling of the local languages. Today, it is impossible to include adopted spelling
standards in internationally advanced writing tools. The language norms conveyed by the big
technology giants thus appear as competitors to the official spelling. The companies also do not
allow locally developed language technology for small languages (e.g., Greenlandic, Sami,
Norwegian, Nynorsk) to be offered as a local adaptation to the children and young people who
receive their education in these languages". (WetĂ„s. Ă
, SprÄkrÄdet 4.04.2022)
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