The document discusses generating policy networks from parliamentary data and news articles. It presents two policy networks generated for different bills in Spain, showing the organizations and individuals related to each bill. The document concludes that the method can aid in automatic policy network analysis but works better for finding organization relationships than individuals. Future work could improve the network generation and add a time component to capture changing relationships.
An Exploration of Blockchain Technology As a Solution for Digital Rights Mana...Holly Winn (She/Her)
Holly Winn's berklee college of music master's program thesis an exploration of blockchain technology as a solution for digital rights management. Published and archived in the Berklee Online database.
Openlaws.eu is funded by JUST/2013/ACTION GRANTS Grant Agreement Number 4562, led by the University of Amsterdam during the period March 2014-2016. The case study is of the European institutions' provision of free access to European Union law, in terms of cases, legislation, regulatory instruments and academic-expert analysis. The analysis explains how and whether the environment (institutions, policies and the legal community) is finally developing in which open access models such as openlaws.eu can take root and flourish. The key functionalities of the existing legal publishing system are summarized and described. This activity involves a review of the existing information systems and legal databases already in use and will produce a specification of the requirements of the system on the basis of the analysis of social, legal and market requirements. The case studies represent the key socio-economic and legal aspects of the services and illustrate the main functionalities, structure and operation of the proposed services. The findings are informed by key informant interviews and form a working assumption. The interviews are supported by the literature review, and the insights of workshops (including the LASPSI workshop on 3 September 2014).
The breadth of stakeholders interviewed is broad and includes experts from: academia, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB), trading funds, private entrepreneurs, corporations, standards bodies, non-governmental organizations and government policy officials with both domestic and international responsibilities. Note that the case studies rely on a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) framework in order to identify the key components of the problem and provide the key specifications for the system that is to be built, while the third activity will rely on a combination of desk research, in-depth interviews, and focus groups.
Argument (598 words):
We argue that the European legal informatics space is unique in seven respects compared to national case studies.
1. The decision to make access to documentation freely available at production and then no charge was made in the context of no developed market actors to challenge the decision to ‘super-nationalise’ the state provision of legal information and case law reportage. There was no precedent for a multilingual economic and political area such as this, with four original languages and a precedent setting ‘Supreme Court’.
2. The essential role of European law in creating the ‘acquis communitaire’ led to a political decision to make law as widely available as possible. The benefits in creating an essential knowledge of European law amongst a critical mass of advocates at national levels was considered so important from the 1950s onwards that there was no serious resistance beyond basic budgetary questions.
As a result, it may be argued that European legal data is so open to reuse and access that it is the ‘exception that proves the rule’.
Collective Intelligence and the new form of dominance and consumption will probably bring new opportunities and threats to businesses and entrepreneurs. Who will be the new trendsetters and opinion leaders? How will they get accepted or rejected?
During our 2017 Trendslab next february, we will explore those industries, influencers and trends that help shape the next years in terms of consumption and citizen participation. We will discuss the reasons and roots of all these changes and some tools to understand and navigate the next 10 years.
Join the conversation: talks and workshops and participate in the creation of opportunity scenarios using multiple visual and digital methods.
An Exploration of Blockchain Technology As a Solution for Digital Rights Mana...Holly Winn (She/Her)
Holly Winn's berklee college of music master's program thesis an exploration of blockchain technology as a solution for digital rights management. Published and archived in the Berklee Online database.
Openlaws.eu is funded by JUST/2013/ACTION GRANTS Grant Agreement Number 4562, led by the University of Amsterdam during the period March 2014-2016. The case study is of the European institutions' provision of free access to European Union law, in terms of cases, legislation, regulatory instruments and academic-expert analysis. The analysis explains how and whether the environment (institutions, policies and the legal community) is finally developing in which open access models such as openlaws.eu can take root and flourish. The key functionalities of the existing legal publishing system are summarized and described. This activity involves a review of the existing information systems and legal databases already in use and will produce a specification of the requirements of the system on the basis of the analysis of social, legal and market requirements. The case studies represent the key socio-economic and legal aspects of the services and illustrate the main functionalities, structure and operation of the proposed services. The findings are informed by key informant interviews and form a working assumption. The interviews are supported by the literature review, and the insights of workshops (including the LASPSI workshop on 3 September 2014).
The breadth of stakeholders interviewed is broad and includes experts from: academia, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPB), trading funds, private entrepreneurs, corporations, standards bodies, non-governmental organizations and government policy officials with both domestic and international responsibilities. Note that the case studies rely on a Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) framework in order to identify the key components of the problem and provide the key specifications for the system that is to be built, while the third activity will rely on a combination of desk research, in-depth interviews, and focus groups.
Argument (598 words):
We argue that the European legal informatics space is unique in seven respects compared to national case studies.
1. The decision to make access to documentation freely available at production and then no charge was made in the context of no developed market actors to challenge the decision to ‘super-nationalise’ the state provision of legal information and case law reportage. There was no precedent for a multilingual economic and political area such as this, with four original languages and a precedent setting ‘Supreme Court’.
2. The essential role of European law in creating the ‘acquis communitaire’ led to a political decision to make law as widely available as possible. The benefits in creating an essential knowledge of European law amongst a critical mass of advocates at national levels was considered so important from the 1950s onwards that there was no serious resistance beyond basic budgetary questions.
As a result, it may be argued that European legal data is so open to reuse and access that it is the ‘exception that proves the rule’.
Collective Intelligence and the new form of dominance and consumption will probably bring new opportunities and threats to businesses and entrepreneurs. Who will be the new trendsetters and opinion leaders? How will they get accepted or rejected?
During our 2017 Trendslab next february, we will explore those industries, influencers and trends that help shape the next years in terms of consumption and citizen participation. We will discuss the reasons and roots of all these changes and some tools to understand and navigate the next 10 years.
Join the conversation: talks and workshops and participate in the creation of opportunity scenarios using multiple visual and digital methods.
Our FutureTDM workshop at the European Parliament focus at the development of TDM policy. With EU copyright reform now in progress, we bring together policy makers and stakeholder groups so that we can share FutureTDM’s findings and our first expert driven policy recommendations that can help increase EU TDM.
The impact of AI and Blockchain technologies in the Legal IndustryHunter Thompson
This is a paper I wrote for my final semester of my Bachelor of Law (Honours) for the subject Innovation and intellectual Property Law, for which I received a high distinction (56/60). I wanted to share this paper with my Linkedin colleagues in the hope that it might provide an overview of two areas of disruption in law that I believe are highly relevant and interesting.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
CRJ510: Criminal Justice Policy & Theory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CRJ510
CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY & THEORY
Supplemental Materials
TABLE OF CONTENTS1
WEEK ONE3
CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY PROCESS3
Recommended Resource3
WEEK TWO7
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY ACTORS7
Recommended Resources7
WEEK THREE8
THE JUDICIARY and BUREAUCRACIES AS POLICY ACTORS8
Recommended Resources8
WEEK FOUR13
THE MEDIA AND INTEREST GROUPS AS CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY ACTORS13
Recommended Resources13
WEEK FIVE17
POLICE and COURTS AS POLICY ACTORS17
Recommended Resources17
WEEK SIX21
CORRECTIONS and JUVENILE JUSTICE POLICY ACTORS21
Recommended Resources21
WEEK ONECRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY PROCESS
Recommended Resource
Text Chapter
Gardiner, C. L. (2014). The influence of research and evidence-based practices on criminal justice policy. In S. L. Mallicoat & C. L. Gardiner (Eds.), Criminal justice policy (pp. 15-34). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
This is Chapter 2 in your primary textbook Criminal Justice Policy.
Websites
Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy (http://cebcp.org/)
· “The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, housed within the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, seeks to make scientific research a key component in decisions about crime and justice policies. The CEBCP carries out this mission by advancing rigorous studies in criminal justice and criminology through research-practice collaborations, and proactively serving as an informational and translational link to practitioners and the policy community.” (Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy-George Mason University)
· Source Applicability: This is a good website to identify potential criminal justice policy issues that align with the primary course texts. These policy issues are examples applicable for both Week One discussions and the journal article review.
C2D – Centre for research on direct democracy (http://c2d.ch/index.php)
· This is an international website. “The C2D was founded in 1993 at the Department of Constitutional Law of the University of Geneva and became a part of the new centre for democracy studies in Aarau ZDA in September 2007. The C2D is grateful to the Law Department of the University of Geneva for hosting the centre for 15 years and letting it develop into what it is today. The centre consists of researchers in law and political science who have devoted their research interests to direct democracy as a form of contemporary democracy.” (Center for Research on Direct Democracy)
· Source Applicability: This is a good website to show international criminal justice policy issues. Though it does not apply directly to the policy issues for both Week One discussions, depending on the focus of your Final Paper, it may directly apply to the journal article review and the Final Paper.
Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (http://www.popcenter.org/)
· “The mission of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is t.
E-Police: solution for the state and municipal law enforcement institutions responsible for data recording, investigation and legal decision making regarding criminal and administrative offences.
New Metrics for Sustainable Prosperity: Options for GDP+3 (preliminary study)susannedejong
A presentation of a preliminary study on options for GDP+3. Funded by the European Commission, DG RTD, the study explores three options for a GDP+3 set of indicators. Recognising the shortcomings of GDP as a policymaking guide towards prosperity, the study selects new indicators that complement GDP in three key dimensions of sustainable prosperity: social, environmental, and institutional prosperity. Our policy recommendations emphasize integrating the GDP+3 framework into EU policymaking processes, promoting it internationally through the EU’s economic diplomacy, ensuring it is responsive to citizens' needs, and investing in high quality, internationally comparable and regularly updated indicators.
New Metrics for Sustainable Prosperity: Options for GDP+3susannedejong
A presentation of a preliminary study on options for GDP+3. Funded by the European Commission, DG RTD, the study explores three options for a GDP+3 set of indicators. Recognising the shortcomings of GDP as a policymaking guide towards prosperity, the study selects new indicators that complement GDP in three key dimensions of sustainable prosperity: social, environmental, and institutional prosperity. Our policy recommendations emphasize integrating the GDP+3 framework into EU policymaking processes, promoting it internationally through the EU’s economic diplomacy, ensuring it is responsive to citizens' needs, and investing in high quality, internationally comparable and regularly updated indicators.
E-Government as a New Studying Subject. Towards a Theoretical Integration Proposal . By Juan Ignacio Criado Grande, Mentxu Ramilo Araujo and Miquel Salvador i Serna
Pablo de Pedraza: Labor market matching, economic cycle and online vacanciesTextkernel
Pablo de Pedraza's presentation at Textkernel's Conference Intelligent Machines and the Future of Recruitment on 2 June 2016.
The number of job openings, or vacancies, is an important indicator of the state of the economy and the labour market. They are extensively used by institutions and in academic papers to calculate the Beveridge Curve or estimate the matching function, center pieces of macroeconomic models studying labor markets. Vacancies can be measured using administrative registers, surveys to employers, advertisements in printed press or using online advertising.
This presentation is divided into two sections. In the first one we study the Dutch Beveridge curve and the matching function using the number of vacancies inferred from a survey to employers conducted by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) from 1997 until the end of 2014. We obtain conclusion about matching process before and after the Great Recession.
In the second section we compare number of vacancies inferred from CBS vacancy data with the number of vacancies posted online. According to CBS data, the number of vacancies increases during positive shocks and goes down during negative ones. We can observe the number of web vacancies posted online from 2006 until today and compare them with CBS data during a complete economic cycle.
Results show a positive time trend in the number of online vacancies and negative time trend in the number of vacancies inferred from a survey. We show that both series reflect very similar economic reality once we account for both trends. We settle our future research lines focusing on exploring the sources behind both trends and how they compare across sectors.
Our FutureTDM workshop at the European Parliament focus at the development of TDM policy. With EU copyright reform now in progress, we bring together policy makers and stakeholder groups so that we can share FutureTDM’s findings and our first expert driven policy recommendations that can help increase EU TDM.
The impact of AI and Blockchain technologies in the Legal IndustryHunter Thompson
This is a paper I wrote for my final semester of my Bachelor of Law (Honours) for the subject Innovation and intellectual Property Law, for which I received a high distinction (56/60). I wanted to share this paper with my Linkedin colleagues in the hope that it might provide an overview of two areas of disruption in law that I believe are highly relevant and interesting.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
CRJ510: Criminal Justice Policy & Theory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CRJ510
CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY & THEORY
Supplemental Materials
TABLE OF CONTENTS1
WEEK ONE3
CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY PROCESS3
Recommended Resource3
WEEK TWO7
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE POLICY ACTORS7
Recommended Resources7
WEEK THREE8
THE JUDICIARY and BUREAUCRACIES AS POLICY ACTORS8
Recommended Resources8
WEEK FOUR13
THE MEDIA AND INTEREST GROUPS AS CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY ACTORS13
Recommended Resources13
WEEK FIVE17
POLICE and COURTS AS POLICY ACTORS17
Recommended Resources17
WEEK SIX21
CORRECTIONS and JUVENILE JUSTICE POLICY ACTORS21
Recommended Resources21
WEEK ONECRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY PROCESS
Recommended Resource
Text Chapter
Gardiner, C. L. (2014). The influence of research and evidence-based practices on criminal justice policy. In S. L. Mallicoat & C. L. Gardiner (Eds.), Criminal justice policy (pp. 15-34). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
This is Chapter 2 in your primary textbook Criminal Justice Policy.
Websites
Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy (http://cebcp.org/)
· “The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, housed within the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, seeks to make scientific research a key component in decisions about crime and justice policies. The CEBCP carries out this mission by advancing rigorous studies in criminal justice and criminology through research-practice collaborations, and proactively serving as an informational and translational link to practitioners and the policy community.” (Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy-George Mason University)
· Source Applicability: This is a good website to identify potential criminal justice policy issues that align with the primary course texts. These policy issues are examples applicable for both Week One discussions and the journal article review.
C2D – Centre for research on direct democracy (http://c2d.ch/index.php)
· This is an international website. “The C2D was founded in 1993 at the Department of Constitutional Law of the University of Geneva and became a part of the new centre for democracy studies in Aarau ZDA in September 2007. The C2D is grateful to the Law Department of the University of Geneva for hosting the centre for 15 years and letting it develop into what it is today. The centre consists of researchers in law and political science who have devoted their research interests to direct democracy as a form of contemporary democracy.” (Center for Research on Direct Democracy)
· Source Applicability: This is a good website to show international criminal justice policy issues. Though it does not apply directly to the policy issues for both Week One discussions, depending on the focus of your Final Paper, it may directly apply to the journal article review and the Final Paper.
Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (http://www.popcenter.org/)
· “The mission of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is t.
E-Police: solution for the state and municipal law enforcement institutions responsible for data recording, investigation and legal decision making regarding criminal and administrative offences.
New Metrics for Sustainable Prosperity: Options for GDP+3 (preliminary study)susannedejong
A presentation of a preliminary study on options for GDP+3. Funded by the European Commission, DG RTD, the study explores three options for a GDP+3 set of indicators. Recognising the shortcomings of GDP as a policymaking guide towards prosperity, the study selects new indicators that complement GDP in three key dimensions of sustainable prosperity: social, environmental, and institutional prosperity. Our policy recommendations emphasize integrating the GDP+3 framework into EU policymaking processes, promoting it internationally through the EU’s economic diplomacy, ensuring it is responsive to citizens' needs, and investing in high quality, internationally comparable and regularly updated indicators.
New Metrics for Sustainable Prosperity: Options for GDP+3susannedejong
A presentation of a preliminary study on options for GDP+3. Funded by the European Commission, DG RTD, the study explores three options for a GDP+3 set of indicators. Recognising the shortcomings of GDP as a policymaking guide towards prosperity, the study selects new indicators that complement GDP in three key dimensions of sustainable prosperity: social, environmental, and institutional prosperity. Our policy recommendations emphasize integrating the GDP+3 framework into EU policymaking processes, promoting it internationally through the EU’s economic diplomacy, ensuring it is responsive to citizens' needs, and investing in high quality, internationally comparable and regularly updated indicators.
E-Government as a New Studying Subject. Towards a Theoretical Integration Proposal . By Juan Ignacio Criado Grande, Mentxu Ramilo Araujo and Miquel Salvador i Serna
Pablo de Pedraza: Labor market matching, economic cycle and online vacanciesTextkernel
Pablo de Pedraza's presentation at Textkernel's Conference Intelligent Machines and the Future of Recruitment on 2 June 2016.
The number of job openings, or vacancies, is an important indicator of the state of the economy and the labour market. They are extensively used by institutions and in academic papers to calculate the Beveridge Curve or estimate the matching function, center pieces of macroeconomic models studying labor markets. Vacancies can be measured using administrative registers, surveys to employers, advertisements in printed press or using online advertising.
This presentation is divided into two sections. In the first one we study the Dutch Beveridge curve and the matching function using the number of vacancies inferred from a survey to employers conducted by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) from 1997 until the end of 2014. We obtain conclusion about matching process before and after the Great Recession.
In the second section we compare number of vacancies inferred from CBS vacancy data with the number of vacancies posted online. According to CBS data, the number of vacancies increases during positive shocks and goes down during negative ones. We can observe the number of web vacancies posted online from 2006 until today and compare them with CBS data during a complete economic cycle.
Results show a positive time trend in the number of online vacancies and negative time trend in the number of vacancies inferred from a survey. We show that both series reflect very similar economic reality once we account for both trends. We settle our future research lines focusing on exploring the sources behind both trends and how they compare across sectors.
Pablo de Pedraza: Labor market matching, economic cycle and online vacancies
DAMA - Final Presentation
1. Motivation. Related works. Generating bill based Policy Networks. Results Conclusions Future work
Mining parliamentary data and news articles
to find patterns of collaboration between
politicians and third party actors.
Francisco Rodr´ıguez Drumond
DAMA & LARCA - UPC
July 7,2014
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Social Networks: a natural tool for political analysis.
Nodes: Families of the
political landscape of XV
century Florence.
Links: marriages between
families (alliances).
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Analizing parliaments through SNs.
Why?
Main challenge: source of information (nodes and
relationships)
Co-sponsorship. [Fow06]
Speeches. [TPL06]
Strong and weak ties. [Kir11]
Can we discover relationships involving third-party actors?
Third party discovery
Defining meaningful relationships.
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An overview of our task
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An overview of our task
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An overview of our task
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An overview of our task
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SOPA: A motivating example.
Policy Networks (PN): Social networks for political analysis.
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An overview of the literature.
Co-occurrence. [EESGGHAC14], [PSIO06].
Enriching links with the strength and semantics of relations.
[Tan07],[PSB07],[ZAR03].
Beyond document co-occurrence. [NCSS06],[Bra06].
A (very) related paper. [MID+13]
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A (very) related paper.
Moschopoulos (2013) Toward the automatic extraction of policy
networks using web links and documents
Two pre-computed PNs: Ireland and Greece.
Ground truth used for measuring correlations with similarity
measures.
Web based.
Three types of similarity metrics:
Co-occurrence metrics (Set comparisons).
Text-based metrics.
Link-based metrics.
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Generating bill based Policy Networks: the architecture.
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12. Motivation. Related works. Generating bill based Policy Networks. Results Conclusions Future work
Finding news articles that talk about a bill.
Topic modeling:
TF-IDF for keyword
extraction.
One bill - one document.
Whole set of bills as the
corpus.
1,2,3-ngrams.
Top 1000 keywords for each
bill.
Querying news articles:
Bills and news articles
modeled as vectors
Cosine similarity for
comparison.
Rocchio’s rule for improving
queries.
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Selecting relevant news articles.
Threshold: point that maximizes:
threshold = argmax
p
|p − (p.b )b |
Intuition: point at which there is
no significant gain in score.
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Entity extraction and preprocessing.
MITIE for entity extraction +
1 Entity Normalization
‘The Univ. lumiere Lyon 2’ → ‘Univ Lumiere Lyon 2’
2 Mapping organization initials to the whole name
‘The World Life Fund (WLF) has...’
→ ‘World Life Fund’ = ‘WLF’
3 Mapping partial names with full names
‘George Harrison preferred .... Harrison also...’
→ ‘George Harrison’ = ‘Harrison’
4 Expanding names based on the news corpus
‘Polit`ecnica de Catalunya’
→ ‘Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya’
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Filtering relevant entities.
Problem: +3000 entities per bill
Noise.
Expensive comparisons.
Solution:
Document co-occurrence + Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)
for fast similarity computation.
Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) for grouping
entities based on their similarity.
Politicians → seed entities.
Silhoutte for detecting the best cluster containing seed
entities.
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Computing and thresholding entity similarities.
Entities represented as vectors of 1...3-grams occurring in
paragraphs they are mentioned in.
TF-IDF with sublinear TF scaling (tf = 1 + log(frequency))
Cosine similarity for comparing the vectors.
Elbows for detecting relevant entities for each entity.
Two entities e1 and e2 are related iff they are in each others
relevant entities list.
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17. Motivation. Related works. Generating bill based Policy Networks. Results Conclusions Future work
Results.
Two bills:
BCN-World.
Law of Popular Non-referendary Consults.
Look at:
Communities → colors.
Influencers → node size.
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18. Motivation. Related works. Generating bill based Policy Networks. Results Conclusions Future work
BCN-World - Organizations.
Acencas
CUP
Tripartito
Canales Y Puertos De Tarragona
Puerto De Tarragona
Diputacion De Tarragona
Camara De Comercio De Tarragona Pimec
Govern
PSC
Parlament
Ciu
Veremonte
ERC
Icv-euia
PP
La Caixa
Melco
Hard Rock
Cepta
PPC
Sociedad Centre Medics Selva Maresme
Ciutadans
Grup Peralada
Camara Catalana
AECE
URV
Value RetailFerrari
Melia
Hard Rock Cafe
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19. Motivation. Related works. Generating bill based Policy Networks. Results Conclusions Future work
BCN-World - Persons-Organizations.
Felip Puig
Francesc Xavier Mena
Pimec
Diputacion De Tarragona
Govern
Veremonte
Josep Gonzalez
Josep Poblet
Pere Granados
Xavier Adsera
Salvador Guillermo
Isidre Faine
Xavier Pallares
Francesc Homs
Antoni Belmonte
Cepta
Dolors Llobet
Caixabank
Macia Alavedra
Javier De La Rosa
Daniel De Alfonso
Hortensia GrauJoan Herrera
Santi Vila
Jordi VilajoanaLluis Rullan
Melco
Xavier Sabate
Josep Felix Ballesteros
Puerto De Tarragona
Enrique Bañuelos
Josep Andreu
URV
Isabel Vallet
Joan Pons
Icv-euia
Pere Aragones
Parlament
Hard Rock
Grup Peralada
PSC
PP
Jordi Turull
Marta Rovira
Miquel Salazar
Jordi Pons
Jaume Amat
Sociedad Centre Medics Selva Maresme
Pere Navarro
Andreu Mas-colell
Caixa
Damia Calvet
Oriol Junqueras
Artur Mas
Camara Catalana
Ciu
ERC
PPC
Albert Batet
Alicia Romero
Melia
Value Retail
Alejandro Fernandez
Enric Millo
Alicia Sanchez-camacho
CUP
Enric Genesca
Tripartito
Ciutadans
Agusti Colom
Camara De Comercio De Tarragona
Ferrari
La Roca
Ernest Maragall
Josep Mayoral
Carles Pellicer
Acencas
Francesc Perendreu
AECE
Jordi Sierra
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Law of Popular Non-referendary Consults. - Organizations.
Manresadecideix
UDC
Comunidad Valenciana
Senado
Upyd
Omnium
Tribunal Constitucional
Moviment Arenyenc
PP
Juzgado De Lo Contencioso
Parlament
Greenpeace
Solidaritat
ERC
PSC
Podemos
PSOE
Icv-euia
Ciudadanos
Congreso Ciu
Compromis
CDC
CUP
BNG
Barcelona DecideixReagrupament
Bildu
ANC
Els Verds
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Law of Popular Non-referendary Consults. - Persons.
Lehendakari Ibarretxe
Manuel Fraga
Carles Mora
Joan Ridao
Uriel Bertran
Felip Puig
Jordi Fabrega
Joan Saura
Miquel Calcada
Joan Puigcercos
Lluis Corominas
Jaume De Frontanya
Jose Blanco
Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Mariano Rajoy
Josep Maria Pelegri
Josep Lluis Carod-roviraJosep Antoni Duran
Jose Zaragoza
Maria Emilia Casas
Maria Mas Jose Montilla
Leon
Josep Pique
Josep Camprubi
Lauren Uria
Ramon Torramade
Jordi Pujol
Josep Rull
Pedro Sanchez
Rodrigo Rato
Javier Arenas
Jose Maria Aznar
Maria Dolores De Cospedal
Carles MartiJordi Hereu
Joan Clos
Xavier Trias
Jordi Portabella
Joan Ferran
Ricard Goma
Ferran Mascarell
Pasqual Maragall
Franco
Miquel Iceta
Soraya Saenz De Santamaria
Patxi Lopez
Angel Acebes
Pere Jover
Marc Carrillo
Eduardo Zaplana
Oriol Pujol
Dolors Camats
Jordi Molto
Laia Bonet
Joan Botella
Joana Ortega
Joan Tarda
Santiago Rodriguez
Joan Herrera
Ferran Requejo
Abogado Del Estado
Andreu Mumbru
Artur Mas
Assumpta Escarp
Antoni Castells
Jone Goyricelaya
Ernest Benach
Angel Ros
Francesc Homs
Jordi Ausas
Nuria De Gispert
Oriol Junqueras
Albert Rivera
Jordi Turull
Marta Rovira
Alicia Sanchez-camacho
Ramon Espadaler
Pere Navarro
David Fernandez
Maurici Lucena
Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba
Carme Forcadell
Anna Simo
Joan Ignasi ElenaJoan Rigol
Esperanza Aguirre
Jose Manuel Soria
Laia Ortiz
Carles Viver Pi-sunyer
Rosa Diez
Carme Garcia
Josep Duran Lleida
Alfred Morales
Josep Maria Alvarez
Muriel Casals
Alfred Bosch
Cayo Lara
Pedro Arriola
Jose Maria Mena
Josep Maria Terricabras
Dolors Batalla
Arnaldo Otegi
Joan Carles Gallego
Alicia Sanchez Camacho
Jose Domingo
Angel Colom
Carme Capdevila
Joan Carretero
Francesc Ribera
Ahora Marti
Ernest Maragall
Jorge Fernandez Diaz
Alfons Lopez Tena
Alfonso Alonso
Marina Llansana
Marc Sanglas
Alberto Ruiz Gallardon David Cameron
Lluis Companys
Carme Chacon
Santi Vila
Jose Antonio Perez Tapias
Jordi Guillot
Josep Felix Ballesteros
Isabel Vallet
Alberto Fernandez Diaz
Antonio Hernando
Cristobal Montoro
Jaume Collboni
Ban Ki-moon
Ada Colau
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Conclusions.
1 An unbiased, low-cost, automated tool to aid the process of
Policy Network generation and analysis.
2 The system automatically:
1 Detect entities related to a bill.
2 Computes and thresholds similarity measures for SN
generation.
3 The method works better for finding relationships between
organizations than for persons, particularly politicians.
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Contributions.
1 The use of bills as a cornerstone relating political actors,
allowing to:
Understand better the discovered relations.
Find fine-grained relationships which would otherwise be
missed.
2 A method for combining parliamentary open data and news
papers for PN generation.
3 An unsupervised method for automatically detecting relevant
entities of a given topic from a corpus of documents given a
set of seed entities.
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Future work.
1 A more rigorous evaluation and problem definition.
2 Improving the PN generation phase.
3 Generative models.
4 Use-case driven PN generation.
5 Time component.
6 Signed Social Network Analysis
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The end.
Merci beacoup!
Gr`acies!
Grazie!
Mult¸umesc!
Questions?
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Understanding the representation of entities and
documents.
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