The evaluation of the performance of any information system is important for the further improvement of that system. This paper proposes a Decision Support System (DSS) evaluation method based on multiple-criteria techniques within a multiple-constituency perspective. With multiple-constituency DSS evaluation, many criteria may be valuable to a particular group of stakeholders, whilst others ma...

INRECENT YEARS, THE TRADITIONAL FUNCTIONS of the library have been supplemented by new functions and structures, among them information technology and development. Fund-raising, part of development, is of critical importance to schools and departments of universities, which are increasingly engaged in capital campaigns and major gift programs. While libraries have the disadvantage of not having...

Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce concept civic feedbacks, arguing that ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects shape strategic position organizations,...

Poland’s economic and political transition, one of the most successful transitions, has depended very heavily on the job creation in new firms to replace the jobs lost in the formerly state-owned enterprises. This uses evidence from both survey and aggregate data to analyze four Polish elections during the transition. These analyses indicate that these de novo firms, the individuals they employ...

The aim of Evalita Parsing Task is at defining and extending Italian state of the art parsing by encouraging the application of existing models and approaches. As in the Evalita’07 and ’09, the Task is organized around two tracks, i.e. Dependency Parsing and Constituency Parsing. In this paper, we describe only the Constituency Parsing track by presenting the data sets for development and testi...

This paper looks at integrating dependency and constituency into a common framework, using the TAG formalism and a diierent perspective on the meta-grammar of (Dras, 1999) in which the grammar is viewed as a single yield function. This framework gives consistent dependency analyses of raising verbs interacting with bridge verbs, solving a problem in Synchronous TAG; and in a completely diierent...

We present a parser for probabilistic Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems and use it for constituency and dependency treebank parsing. The choice of LCFRS, a formalism with an extended domain of locality, enables us to model discontinuous constituents and non-projective dependencies in a straightforward way. The parsing results show that, firstly, our parser is efficient enough to be used for...

This paper presents the conversion of SynTagRus dependency structures into Penn Treebank style phrase structures, whose resulting data will be used to train a statistical constituency parser for Russian and create a large-scale constituency-parsed corpus. The implemented conversion includes various innovative features in order to create phrase structure trees that are closest to Penn Treebank s...

We analyze a model of legislative particularism to understand how the provision of constituency service responds to variations in institutional and electoral environments. We show that increased partisan balance in the electorate, single-member districts, and independent executives all increase incentives for legislators to provide constituency service. The results of the model are consistent w...