This article examines parliament representatives’ Twittercontributions (tweets). First, the genre of communication approach is introduced to identify common characteristics and communication patterns. Second, the findings are analysed using various eDemocracy models and deliberative standards to identify to what extent these tweets could be characterized as part of a deliberative discussion. Th...

There will be a referendum on Scottish independence in 2014. The prospect of further constitutional change might prompt us to reconsider the role and influence of the Scottish Parliament as a legislature. Fourteen years of devolution has also given us plenty of experience on which to make our assessment of the limitations of the new Scottish political system. Yet, the title of this article also...

BACKGROUND Establishment of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in 2000 resulted in increased funding for health research in Canada. Since 2001, the number of proposals submitted to CIHR that, following peer review, are judged to be of scientific merit to warrant funding, has grown by 77%. But many of these proposals do not receive funding because of budget constraints. Given the ...

In this paper we describe the ISL statistical machine translation system used in the TC-STAR Spring 2006 Evaluation campaign. This system is based on PESA phrase-to-phrase translations which are extracted from a bilingual corpus. The translation model, language model and other features are combined in a log-linear model during decoding. We participated in the Spanish Parliament (Cortes) and Eur...

This paper introduces the first functional model of a quantum parliament that is dominated by two parties or coalitions, and may not contain independent legislators. We identify single crucial parameter, aptly named free will radius, which can be used as practical measure quantumness whole. The radius determines degree independence afforded to representatives parties. Setting zero degrades clas...