Although organizations are taking security policy more seriously and are beginning to adopt a lifecycle approach to security policy development, how to assess the quality of security policy is still an unaddressed issue. This paper describes the results of two case studies focusing on a multiple constituency perspective of security quality assessment in organizations. Multiple constituency theo...

Non-elected actors in governance networks are legitimate representatives when the constituency accepts their claims of representation. However, not all constituents have resources to approve or oppose this Consequently, I argue that audience, often decision-making authority, which enables non-elected act as has a responsibility consider legitimacy. Drawing on seven business and urban developmen...

We investigate two aspects of the empirical behavior of paired significance tests for NLP systems. First, when one system appears to outperform another, how does significance level relate in practice to the magnitude of the gain, to the size of the test set, to the similarity of the systems, and so on? Is it true that for each task there is a gain which roughly implies significance? We explore ...

We present a probabilistic model extension to the Tesnière Dependency Structure (TDS) framework formulated in (Sangati and Mazza, 2009). This representation incorporates aspects from both constituency and dependency theory. In addition, it makes use of junction structures to handle coordination constructions. We test our model on parsing the English Penn WSJ treebank using a re-ranking framewor...

Abstract We analyze the impact of elected competitors from same constituency on legislative shirking in German Bundestag 1953 to 2017. The electoral system ensures at least one federal legislator per with a varying number between zero four constituency. exploit exogenous variation by investigating changes competition induced legislators who leave parliament during period and their respective re...