PUBLICATION | 2008 2007 Composite Learning Index: Robustness Issues and Critical Assessment Lifelong learning is crucial to a country¿s continued competitiveness, prosperity and social cohesion and yet no country has had a means of gauging the extent of lifelong learning within...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Towards Person Name Matching for Inflective Languages Web person search is one of the most common activities of Internet users. Recently, a vast amount of work on applying various NLP techniques for person name disambiguation...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study We study the usability of linguistic features in theWeb spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, we make...
PUBLICATION | 2006 Representation de Textes a l'Aide d'Etiquettes Semantiques dans le Cadre de la Classification Automatique This paper describes an algorithm for document representation in a reduced vectorial space by a process of fea-ture extraction. The algorithm is evaluated in the context of the supervised classification of news articles. We are...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Sketching upon Composite Indicators and Sustainable Tourism Issues Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of the fastest growing economic sectors, responsible for multitude of impacts, both positive and negative, on people's lives and on the environment. Simple...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Developing Composite Indicators for Policy-Making: A Brief Methodological Framework and Considerations This summary paper sketches upon the extent to which composite indicators (CIs) can effectively underpin the development of data-driven narratives for policy consumption. An attempt is made to summarise...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Settings and Methods for Global Sensitivity Analysis: A Short Guide Global sensitivity analysis offers a set of tools tailored to the impact assessment of certain assumptions on a model¿s output. A recent book on the topic covers those issues. Given...
PUBLICATION | 2009 Measuring Uncertainties in Composite Indicators of Sustainability Composite indicators are very common in economic and business statistics for benchmarking the relative progress of countries in a variety of policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Higher Education Rankings: Robustness Issues and Critical Assessment It has been often stated that European growth has been disappointing during the past three decades, remaining persistently lower than in the United States and this is to be...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Knowledge Economy: Measures and Drivers In the Knowledge-based Economy conceptual framework that was developed by MERIT a total of 115 individual indicators have been selected to measure the sub-dimensions of the KBE. The high number of individual...