Extracts from Ministerial Statements

Corroborating Facts from Affirmative Statements

Web sources often provide different and even conflicting information. Simple voting-based strategies have already shown limitations at identifying the correct answer to a user query with the presence of unreliable sources. In order to identify the correct answer, corroboration techniques have been proposed and proved to be effective for such tasks. In this paper, we investigate the corroboratio...

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Extracting Meta Statements from the Blogosphere

Information extraction systems have been recently proposed for organizing and exploring content in large online text corpora as information networks. In such networks, the nodes are named entities (e.g., people, organizations) while the edges correspond to statements indicating relations among such entities. To date, such systems extract rather primitive networks, capturing only those relations...

Web-Mining Defeasible Knowledge from Concessional Statements

Mining common-sense knowledge is a vital problem of artificial intelligence that forms the basis of various tasks, from information retrieval to robotics. There have been numerous initiatives to mine common-sense facts from unstructured data, more specifically, from Web texts. However, common-sense knowledge is typically not explicitly stated in the text, as it is considered to be obvious, self...

Cabinet Reshuffles, Bureaucratic Capture, and Ministerial Drift

We model policy implementation in a parliamentary democracy as a game of delegation between the prime minister and his cabinet ministers. We show that cabinet reshuffles can be a pursued as a strategy to reduce the agency-loss which occurs due to the different preferences of the actors. Furthermore, when certain conditions are meet cabinet reshuffles have a dual effect; they reduce agency-loss ...