Automatic Target Word Disambiguation Using Syntactic Relationships

PACLIC 20 / Wuhan, China / 1-3 November, 200

Automatic Bilingual Lexicon Extraction for a Minority Target Language

PACLIC / The University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College Cebu City, Philippines / November 20-22, 200

AutoCor: A Query Based Automatic Acquisition of Corpora of Closely-related Languages

PACLIC 21 / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / November 1-3, 200

A Constraint-based Morphological Analyzer for Concatenative and Non-concatenative Morphology

PACLIC 20 / Wuhan, China / 1-3 November, 200

Building Online Corpora of Philippine Languages

PACLIC 23 / City University of Hong Kong / 3-5 December 200

The Democracy Cube as a Framework for Guiding Participatory Planning for Community-based IT Initiatives

Literature suggests there is a need to build more theoretically-informed understandings of the social processes implicated in participatory IT planning and implementation (Jakku & Thorburn, 2010). In this study, we explore the value of Archon Fung’s (2006) “democracy cube” as a framework for qualitatively examining the process we undertook for planning a community-based IT strategy. Our planning process involved consultations with multiple stakeholder groups across five different communities, as well as from other entities involved in disaster management, with the aim of surfacing factors that shaped local communities’ abilities to participate in disaster management activities. These factors, drawn from qualitative interviews and categorized using a SWOT framework, were subsequently translated into an IT strategy. In this paper, we revisit this process and examine it using Fung’s (2006) three dimensions of democratic participation as a lens: participant selection (our use of multiple stakeholder groups); communication and decision (our consultation process); and authority and power (how participant input drove our strategy). We use the framework to identify the specific practices that made IT planning participative, as well as those that made it nonparticipative. We also use our empirical data to explore ways that the framework can be enhanced

E-Participation towards Legislation: The Case of the Philippines

This paper discusses the issues toward the development of an eParticipation framework contextualized to the Philippine setting for legislation and the development of an ICT system. The project aims to enhance citizen participation and community empowerment in two key roles of the legislature – law making and executive oversight. The project used the concepts of eTransformation and Rapid Application Development Approach (RAD) to identify issues that will affect the future deployment of eParticipation Systems

eParticipation : developing an web-based legislative intelligence system for the Philippine Senate; technical report, June 2009 - November 2011

This project sees the transformational role of ICT as one that challenges existing models of political participation in the Philippines, where a central theme in the on-going socio-political reform effort is enabling participation in the process of governance. With the emphasis on participatory governance, the study centers on the use of an eParticipation portal ICT in the Philippine legislative process. It was pilot tested at the Senate’s Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC), also known as the Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations. The Senate’s BRC is constrained by regulations; only documents duly signed, endorsed, and stamped were allowed for use

Responding to learners realities: A grounded theory on homeschooling as an educative journey

This research focused on homeschooling as an educative journey, responding to learners realities in private, Christian/Catholic-based homeschooling institutions in the Philippines. It used the grounded theory approach to evolve a theory based on in-depth interviews and systematic analysis of data. The emerged theory showed homeschooling as an educative journey with five stages: deciding, adjusting, nurturing, maturing, and releasing. The approach also surfaced three contributing variables: focus, flexibility and strategies. The main story focuses on the homeschooled children, the transformation that they experience, together with their community of learners, the family and the homeschooling environment and the nation. It is a story of the mind, heart and soul of the stakeholders of this experience, challenging, yet fulfilling