During class discussions we covered a number of cross-cutting themes, but never directly addressed the relationship between technology and social values. However, after working on case studies and seeing the presentations of other students it became clear to me that values held by the society can have a large influence on the development and adoption of technologies. Every technology has to pas...

Governments have been using computers since the early 1950s and academics have been writing about government’s use of computers for almost as long. This paper explores this literature and examines the evolution of research into and thinking about the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in government and public administration over the past 50 years. Questions asked include to ...

This paper overviews FBK’s participation in the RTE-7 Main task organized within the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011. Our participation is characterized by two main themes, namely: 1. The attempt to move from token-level overlap measures (i.e. a count of the terms in the hypothesis that can be mapped to terms in the Text), to phraselevel overlap measures that take into account a larger cont...

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