Charting Democracy Across Parsers

Rules, Risks, and Rifts in the Transition to Democracy in Haiti

As the title of this introduction implies, there are few traces of hope and optimism to be found in Haiti’s current situation. If the unavoidable problems of rural communities in a nation of peasants such as Haiti are left unaddressed, and if the nation continues to rely on the standards of the old police state as a model for the new national police, Haiti’s transition toward democracy will be ...

ICANN and the Concept of Democratic Deficit

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an institution besieged. It has endeavored to be democratic but its attempts to do so have been disastrous. The typical explanation for this is that the problem is with ICANN: it fails to meet its democratic obligations. My view is that the problem is with our understanding of "democracy." Democracy is an empty concept that fail...

Multi-Source Transfer of Delexicalized Dependency Parsers

We present a simple method for transferring dependency parsers from source languages with labeled training data to target languages without labeled training data. We first demonstrate that delexicalized parsers can be directly transferred between languages, producing significantly higher accuracies than unsupervised parsers. We then use a constraint driven learning algorithm where constraints a...

Charting the Diffusion of Power Sector Reforms across the Developing World

S&T-Function-Application Cross-charting: An approach to visualize the bridges across the gap between R&D and applications

Introduction The new “S&T-Function-Application Cross-charting” method offers perspective on how specialized the innovation paths ahead might be. It appears effective at associating novel technology-enabled capabilities to gain functional advantages, and to link those functions to potential applications. Those applications can be associated with target users and most promising markets. This rese...