11,504 research outputs found
Walter (J.) and Schofield (R.S.), eds. Famine and the social order in early modem society.
No full textDaelemans Franck. Walter (J.) and Schofield (R.S.), eds. Famine and the social order in early modem society. . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 72, fasc. 4, 1994. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 1016-1017
Interview of author Walter Satterthwait
No full textWalter Satterthwait, author of a series of contemporary crime novels, talks about his protagonists Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon, and his novels set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Satterthwait describes how he came to writing crime stories and why he chose to use a Latina as a main character. He describes his exposure to different cultures, his childhood of frequent moves, how he came to writing, and how he developed his characters. Satterthwait is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Agencies on the parliamentary radar: Exploring the relations between media attention and parliamentary attention for public agencies using machine learning methods
No full textThe news media frame political debate about public agencies, and enable legislators with incomplete information to monitor and act upon agency (mal)performance. While studies show that the news media matters for parliamentary attention, the contingent nature of this relation has been understudied. Building on agenda-setting theory, this study theorizes that the effect of newspaper coverage is contingent on the sentiment of coverage, the majority vs. opposition role of legislators, and the locus (committee vs. plenaries) of parliamentary questions. Supervised machine learning methods allow to code sentiment towards agencies in newspapers and parliament, after which a balanced panel relates these data to the questioning behavior of legislators in parliament over time. Results show that media attention for public agencies precedes parliamentary attention. Sentiment matters, as positive media attention, was related to (positive) parliamentary attention in the same month. Negative media attention had broader and more enduring influences on parliamentary questioning behavior.The research is funded by the Flemish Research Council, Grant 1244720N
The paper benefited from the flempar, an open source an R-package that provides an interface with the API of the Flemish parliament to retrieve its data (see https://www.flempar.be/). This paper also benefited from discussions within the GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence
Anuson Walter Vella
No full textCremation volume for Vella, Walter F. (Walter Francis), 1924-1980, American author on Thailand; comprises condolences and papers on Thailand by both crematee and others
A reputational perspective on structural reforms: how media reputations are related to the structural reform likelihood of public agencies
No full textDespite recurrent observations that media reputations of agencies matter to understand their reform experiences, no studies have theorized and tested the role of sentiment. This study uses novel and advanced BERT language models to detect attributions of responsibility for positive/negative outcomes in media coverage towards 14 Flemish (Belgian) agencies between 2000 and 2015 through supervised machine learning, and connects these data to the Belgian State Administration Database on the structural reforms these agencies experienced. Our results reflect an inverted U-shaped relationship: more negative reputations increase the reform likelihood of agencies, yet up to a certain point at which the reform likelihood drops again. Variations in positive and neutral reputational signals do not impact the reform likelihood of agencies. Our study contributes to understanding the role of reputation as an antecedent of structural reforms. Complementing and enriching existing perspectives, the paper shows how the sentiment in reputational signals accumulates and informs political-administrative decision-makers to engage in structural reforms.Flemish Research Fund (FWO) [G042523N]; HORIZON ERC 2022 Advanced Gran
Prosodic association by template inheritance
No full textGibbon D. Prosodic association by template inheritance. In: Daelemans W, Gazdar G, eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on Inheritance in Natural Language Processing. Tilburg: ITK (Institute for Language Technology and AI); 1990: 65-81
Letter from Walter M. Weglyn to Frank Chin, May 30, 1989
No full textA letter from Walter M. Weglyn to Frank Chin praising him for his writings about Japanese Americans draft resisters during World War II.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Using Wiktionary to Build an Italian Part-of-Speech Tagger
No full textAbstract: While there has been a lot of progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP), many basic resources are still missing for many languages, including Italian, especially resources that are free for both research and commercial use. One of these basic resources is a Part-of- Speech tagger, a rst processing step in many NLP applications. We describe a weakly-supervised, fast, free and reasonably accurate part-ofspeech tagger for the Italian language, created by mining words and their part-of-speech tags from Wiktionary. We have integrated the tagger in Pattern, a freely available Python toolkit. We believe that our approach is general enough to be applied to other languages as well
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