Public hearings play a critical role in U.S. local government. The evolution of public access to government and its related challenges have not been documented systematic way encourage research collaborative scholarship between practitioners scholars. This article seeks begin the dialogue by offering seven strategies for navigating In recent years, governments faced increasing pressure keep pac...

This paper describes an effort to improve identification of human values that are directly or indirectly invoked within the prepared statements of witnesses before legislative and regulatory hearings. We automatically code human values at the sentence level using supervised machine learning techniques trained on a few thousand annotated sentences. To simulate an actual situation, we treat a qua...

There are about 12 million people in this country who could benefit from the use of a hearing aid . At the present time about 3 million people wear hearing aids . Last year, hearing-aid manufacturers sold 600,000 hearing aids . These aids were sold by the manufacturers to their dealers for about $100 each . The dealers in turn sold them to the hearinghandicapped for about $350 each . The fact t...

There has been growing interest about procedural justice in mental health tribunals. A process considered procedurally just increases adherence to treatment, compliance with judicial decisions and allows efficient community reintegration. Yet, little is known how carried out the role of professionals its implementation. Stemming from results a critical ethnography Ontario Review Board, this art...

The human reasoning process used in conducting arguments to resolve conflicts and reach a decision is an interdisciplinary study. Modelling argumentation has a great impact on the development of theories and applications in AI especially in critical domains that involve richness of reasoning such as Law. Therefore, argumentation has been recognised as a core topic in AI and Law. Developing comp...

Effective methods for evaluating the reliability of statements issued by witnesses and defendants in hearings would be extremely valuable to decision-making in Court and other legal settings. In recent years, methods relying on stylometric techniques have proven most successful for this task; but few such methods have been tested with language collected in real-life situations of high-stakes de...