Control over personal data: True remedy or fairytale?

The control over personal data: True remedy or fairy tale ?

This research report undertakes an interdisciplinary review of the concept of “control” (i.e. the idea that people should have greater “control” over their data), proposing an analysis of this concept in the field of law and computer science. Despite the omnipresence of the notion of control in the EU policy documents, scholarly literature and in the press, the very meaning of this concept rema...

Student Ratings of Instruction: True or False

Introduction. Students' evaluation of teaching is a major concern in higher education. In this regard, during the past 30 years hundreds of papers have been published which because of various grounds from valid, reliable to useless, such papers cannot be easily summarized. The present study investigated for two purposes, first was to out line opinions of two groups of advocates and opposites a...

Fairytale Child Chatbot

Fairytale Child (Pohádkové dítě) is a simple chatbot trying to simulate a curious child. It asks the user to tell a fairy tale, often interrupting to ask for details and clarifications. However, it remembers what it was told and tries to show it if possible. The chatbot can communicate in Czech and in English. It analyzes the morphology of each sentence produced by the user with natural languag...

Erythrocyte transfusion: remedy or poison?

Protection or Privacy? Data Mining and Personal Data

A multiclass classification method based on output design p. 15 Regularized semi-supervised classification on manifold p. 20 Similarity-based sparse feature extraction using local manifold learning p. 30 Generalized conditional entropy and a metric splitting criterion for decision trees p. 35 RNBL-MN : a recursive naive Bayes learner for sequence classification p. 45 TRIPPER : rule learning usi...