2024
Authors
Ströhle, T; Campos, R; Jatowt, A;
Publication
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS
Abstract
In our data-flooded age, an enormous amount of redundant, but also disparate textual data is collected on a daily basis on a wide variety of topics. Much of this information refers to documents related to the same theme, that is, different versions of the same document, or different documents discussing the same topic. Being aware of such differences turns out to be an important aspect for those who want to perform a comparative task. However, as documents increase in size and volume, keeping up-to-date, detecting, and summarizing relevant changes between different documents or versions of it becomes unfeasible. This motivates the rise of the contrastive or comparative summarization task, which attempts to summarize the text of different documents related to the same topic in a way that highlights the relevant differences between them. Our research aims to provide a systematic literature review on contrastive or comparative summarization, highlighting the different methods, data sets, metrics, and applications. Overall, we found that contrastive summarization is most commonly used in controversial news articles, controversial opinions or sentiments on a topic, and reviews of a product. Despite the great interest in the topic, we note that standard data sets, as well as a competitive task dedicated to this topic, are yet to come to be proposed, eventually impeding the emergence of new methods. Moreover, the great breakthrough of using deep learning-based language models for abstract summaries in contrastive summarization is still missing.
2024
Authors
Talens, C; Valente, JMS; Fernandez-Viagas, V;
Publication
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Abstract
Traditionally, scheduling literature has focused mainly on solving problems related to processing jobs with non- assembly operations. Despite the growing interest in the assembly literature in recent years, knowledge of the problem is still in its early stages in many aspects. In this regard, we are not aware of any previous contributions that address the assembly scheduling problem with just-in-time objectives. To fill this gap, this paper studies the 2-stage assembly scheduling problem minimising the sum of total earliness and total tardiness. We first analyse the relationship between the decision problem and the generation of the due dates of the jobs, and identify the equivalences with different related decision problems depending on the instances. The properties and conclusions obtained in the analysis are applied to design two constructive heuristics and a composite heuristic. To evaluate our proposals, different heuristics from the state-of-the-art of related scheduling problems are adapted, and a computational evaluation is carried out. The excellent behaviour of the proposed algorithms is demonstrated by an extensive computational evaluation.
2024
Authors
Méndez, SG; Leal, F; Malheiro, B; Burguillo Rial, JC; Veloso, B; Chis, AE; Vélez, HG;
Publication
CoRR
Abstract
2024
Authors
Alcoforado, A; Ferraz, TP; Bustos, E; Oliveira, AS; Gerber, R; Santoro, GLDM; Fama, IC; Veloso, BM; Siqueira, FL; Costa, AHR;
Publication
Estudos Avancados
Abstract
One of the principles of digital democracy is to actively inform citizens and mobilize them to participate in the political debate. This paper introduces a tool that processes public political documents to make information accessible to citizens and specific professional groups. In particular, we investigate and develop artificial intelligence techniques for text mining from the Portuguese Diário da Assembleia da República to partition, analyze, extract and synthesize information contained in the minutes of parliamentary sessions. We also developed dashboards to show the extracted information in a simple and visual way, such as summaries of speeches and topics discussed. Our main objective is to increase transparency and accountability between elected officials and voters, rather than characterizing political behavior. © (2024), (SciELO-Scientific Electronic Library Online). All Rights Reserved.
2024
Authors
Santos, R; Brandao, A; Veloso, B; Popoli, P;
Publication
TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT- PEOPLE PROCESS AND POLICY
Abstract
PurposeThis study aims to understand the perceived emotions of human-artificial intelligence (AI) interactions in the private sector. Moreover, this research discusses the transferability of these lessons to the public sector.Design/methodology/approachThis research analysed the comments posted between June 2022 and June 2023 in the global open Reddit online community. A data mining approach was conducted, including a sentiment analysis technique and a qualitative approach.FindingsThe results show a prevalence of positive emotions. In addition, a pertinent percentage of negative emotions were found, such as hate, anger and frustration, due to human-AI interactions.Practical implicationsThe insights from human-AI interactions in the private sector can be transferred to the governmental sector to leverage organisational performance, governmental decision-making, public service delivery and the creation of economic and social value.Originality/valueBeyond the positive impacts of AI in government strategies, implementing AI can elicit negative emotions in users and potentially negatively impact the brand of private and government organisations. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first research bridging the gap by identifying the predominant negative emotions after a human-AI interaction.
2024
Authors
Snatos, R; Brandão, A; Veloso, B; de Vasconcelos, JB;
Publication
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a strategy for global economic development due to its economic potential. However, the need for more transparency in AI applications generates mistrust because of the complexity of the algorithms. AI has transformed the service industry along with the development and challenge of human-AI interactions. This interaction can elicit negative feelings in consumers, creating communities to voice their disapproval and hatred of brands. Research in this area needs to be improved, and this study aims to understand the negative feelings that result from human-AI interaction in online communities (Reddit). Using sentiment analysis techniques and a qualitative approach, we aimed to identify the predominant negative emotions generated by this interaction. This study also hopes to understand the emotional effects of this interaction better, thus filling in a gap in the literature. The insights obtained can help develop more effective interaction strategies between humans and AI that can benefit brands and society. The results show a sizable presence of negative feelings such as hate anger and frustration. It is, therefore, essential to understand the negative interactions between consumers, brands and AI and the need to develop strategies to mitigate these feelings. Contributions from the academic and corporate fields emphasise the importance of monitoring feelings and promoting more positive interactions between brands and consumers. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
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