We explore lexical choice in Natural Language Generation (NLG) by implementing a model that uses both context and frequency information. Our model chooses a lemma given a WordNet synset in the abstract representations that are the input for generation. In order to find the correct lemma in its context, we map underspecified dependency trees to Hidden Markov Trees that take into account the prob...

Physical violence against women is pervasive through out the world and domestic violence has been a longstanding issue in feminist activism and research. Yet, these experiences are often not represented in technological research or design. In the move to consider HCI at the margins, in this paper, we ask: how have ICTs affected the experiences of domestic violence survivors? We interviewed fema...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are electronic tools used to convey, manipulate and store information. The exponential growth of Internet access and ICTs greatly influenced social, political, and economic processes in the United States, and worldwide. Regardless of the level of practice, ICTs will continue influencing the careers of social workers and the clients they serve. I...

In this paper we will describe an approach to evaluating learning technology which we have developed over the last twenty-five years, outline its theoretical background and compare it with other evaluation frameworks. This has given us a set of working principles from evaluations we have conducted at the Open University and from the literature, which we apply to the conduct of evaluations. Thes...

political participation of citizens is an important political issue which affects the process of political development in each society. in the age of information revolution, information and communication technologies are penetrating all levels of societies and have catalyzed the process of development in every country and encourage many scholars to study how these technologies affect the social...

information and communication technologies (ict) have offered innovative and cost effective advertising tools for managers. one of such technologies is mobile phone which has enabled a novel marketing channel for companies to directly reach their customers. yet, mobile marketing is still in its infancy and needs deeper investigations. this paper has studied 588 customers’ perception for receivi...

information and communication technologies are a set of tools, machines, technical knowledge, methods and skills to be used for production, trade, processing, storage, recycling, transferring, and transport of “information”. in the globalization process, information has created the possibility for formation of various formal and informal networks by individuals, groups, and even other networks,...