Browsing Computer Science (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Inclusive Society"
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Anonymous FreeSpeech
(2014)In public and private discourse, some may be heard to express disquiet about the supposed dangers of anonymity. Anonymous suggestion boxes may be classed with anonymous accusation of crime with the accusation forming the ... -
Bridging the Blue
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2020,, 2020)Bridging the Blue is an attempt to harness tech-nology as an enabler of empathy through using its qualities and possibilities to challenge how we listen. Feedback to date suggests that Bridging the the Blue offers an ... -
Comparing SpamAssassin with CBDF email filtering
(2004)In this paper, we compare the email filtering software SpamAssassin with a statistical email filter, known as chi by degrees of freedom. We examine SpamAssassin?s filtering techniques and ascertain their effectiveness. ... -
Digital technology and privacy attitudes in times of COVID-19: formal legality versus legal reality in Ireland
(2022)The adoption of digital technologies to counteract the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a major exposure of our rights to privacy and data protection. An empirical study conducted in Ireland by the Science Foundation ... -
Dynamic semantics for metaphor
(2001)An intensional logic with dynamic interpretation is presented in order to provide a formal semantics for sense extension, lexical ambiguity and metaphoricity. Intensionality is required in order to provide the right ... -
Emoticons Signal Expertise in Technical Web Forums
(Springer, 2013)Past research has demonstrated intercultural differences in emoticon use with effects of the topic of discourse (e.g. science vs. politics) interacting with the culture of online postings (e.g. UK, Italy, Sweden, Germany). ... -
Gender Bias on Tinder: Transforming an Exploratory Qualitative Survey into Statistical Data for Contextualized Interpretation
(Springer Nature, 2017)Tinder is an online dating application that enables a human-human interaction. However, the ease of connection brings to light some concerns about possible harmful gender dynamics, which can enhance bias within technological ... -
Gender Effects in Mobile Application Development.
(2020)Growing interest in the impact of gender on technology includes concerns with regard to gender bias and its implication in the user experience. Past explorations of gender and design revealed significant differences between ... -
Group Dialects in an Online Community
(2007)Variations in group sub-languages evolve quickly and are a key marker of social boundaries such as those between professions, workgroups, tribes and families. In this paper we present a quantitative analysis of the effects ... -
IMHO: An Exploratory Study of Hedging in Web Forums
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013)We explore hedging in web forum conversations, which is interestingly different to hedging in academic articles, the main focus of recent automatic approaches to hedge detection. One of our main results is that forum posts ... -
The impact of gender-inclusive methods on design decision making
(Sette Citta, 2023)Many assumptions regarding gender biases in design have been raised in recent decades, such as that gender stereotypes can be ingrained in products and services (Akrich, 1992; van Oost, 2003) and that the gender imbalance ... -
Improving Document-level Sentiment Analysis with User and Product Context
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020)Past work that improves document-level sentiment analysis by encoding user and product information has been limited to considering only the text of the current review. We investigate incorporating additional review text ... -
Language and friendships: A co-evolution model of social and linguistic conventions
(World Scientific, 2012)Human social networks are dynamic, yet the majority of computational models of language evolution operate with either fixed or random interaction patterns between agents. This paper presents a model of lexicon formation ... -
A Logic Based Implementation of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(Elsevier, 1991)Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a unification-based formal language for describing linguistic phenomena, has a declarative semantics which makes it amenable to specification as a logic program. The HPSG ... -
Modelling Social Structures and Hierarchies in Language Evolution
(Springer, 2010)Language evolution might have preferred certain prior social configurations over others. Experiments conducted with models of different social structures (varying subgroup interactions and the role of a dominant interlocutor) ... -
N-gram Distributions in Texts as Proxy for Textual Fingerprints
(IOS Press, 2007)Recent experiments using mainly character unigram distributions in authorship attribution tasks are discussed. Results so far indicate efficacy in similarity judgements seemingly good enough for `balance of probabilities' ... -
Non-Local Contexts Help Resolve Ambiguity
(2006)This paper addresses nonlocal context effects in the interpretation of ambiguous utterances in natural language. We examine equivocation as a form of discourse ambiguity and demonstrate that nonlocal contexts can resolve ... -
On features and measures of psychological wellbeing
(2022)Low levels of psychological wellbeing pose considerable burdens on society in terms of mortality, unemployment, absen- teeism, medications, social services, morbidity, and in-out patients’ costs. Early detection and ... -
Psychological Evidence for Assumptions of Path-Based Inheritance Reasoning
(1994)The psychological validity of inheritance reasoners is clarified. Elio and Pelletier (1993) presented the first pilot experiment exploring some of these issues. We investigate other foundational assumptions of inheritance ...
