(cont.) updates. It produces plan-ready information, by exploiting the self-serving and opportunistic pursuit of instant return-on-investment by frontline offices. Thanks to its emergent qualities, City Knowledge engenders unexpected plan-demanding situations, where the ability to conduct second-order analyses leads to deeper…

The recent controversies surrounding Amazon’s removal of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ from Kindle readers , the BBC’s proposal to encrypt Freeview High Definition (HD) content and Microsoft’s permanent ban on Xbox Live users who have modified or ‘chipped’ their consoles have…

Research thrives – indeed can hardly do without – data. It is the raw information upon which better understanding, and better knowledge is based.  Indeed one whole assumption underpinning some visions of Electronic Government – such as Wiki-Gov – is…

In our view, there is a general need to gain insights into what a listener
does in linguistic interaction and to provide a comprehensive account
of listenership from a pragmatic standpoint. This paper examines listener
roles and processes in three…

Advances in Corporate Householding are needed to address certain categories of data quality problems caused by data misinterpretation. In this paper, we first summarize some of these data quality problems and our more recent results from studying corporate householding applications…

Las listas de palabras con sus frecuencias se usan ampliamente en muchos procedimientos de agrupamiento y categorización de textos. Usualmente para la compilación de tales listas se usan las aproximaciones basadas en morfología (como el stemmer de Porter) para unir…

Short survey carried out at the beginning of the course in order to elicit information about the students' background, future prospects and knowledge of ICT.

As a basic mode of communication, writing has been used to preserve and transmit knowledge vertically from generation to generation, and horizontally from one community to the other. The early civilizations have used various techniques of written and oral communication…

El artículo trata sobre el uso de información lingüística en la Desambiguación Semántica Automática (DSA). Proponemos un método de DSA basado en conocimiento y no supervisado, que requiere sólo un corpus amplio, previamente etiquetado a nivel morfológico, y muy poco…

Having experienced the second highest population increase in the European Union, older people in the Republic of Ireland constitute 14% of the population (Central Statistics Office 2012). Older people, adults aged 65 and older, are at disproportionate risk of becoming…