2024
Authors
Qalati, SA; Barbosa, B; Deshwal, P;
Publication
SUSTAINABILITY
Abstract
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2024
Authors
Lyulyov, O; Pimonenko, T; Saura, JR; Barbosa, B;
Publication
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Abstract
Sustainable development policies trigger a shift in the global development paradigm by aligning economic, social, and ecological goals. Concurrently, the rapid surge in digitalization is transforming business processes and communications across all sectors and levels. As a result, the integration of e-business and e-governance becomes a critical component in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, the aim of this article is to analyze the effects of digitalization, specifically e-governance and e-business, on the attainment of SDGs in European Union (EU) countries. The method used is a panel of corrected standard errors and feasible generalized least squares models to identify the impact and significance of e-governance and e-business on SDG achievement. The e-governance indicators considered by this study were found to significantly impact SDG achievement. Moreover, e-business indicators were also found to positively impact the attainment of SDGs, with some exceptions. The findings suggest that EU countries should continue to intensify digitalization across all sectors as it enhances the transparency accountability of all business processes and communications and increases trust in government services, which are the core drivers of achieving SDGs.
2024
Authors
Ribeiro, H; Barbosa, B; Moreira, AC; Rodrigues, R;
Publication
JOURNAL OF MARKETING ANALYTICS
Abstract
The telecommunications sector faces a major challenge of high customer churn. Despite this, there is still a lack of research that explores the switching intention for telecommunication services, particularly with bundle services that currently dominate the market. This study aims to provide insight into consumer behaviour regarding bundle telecommunication services by examining the factors that impact satisfaction and switching intention, both directly and indirectly. Eighteen hypotheses were defined based on the literature, and were tested through a quantitative study with 910 bundle service customers using structural equation modelling with Smart-PLS. The results show that internet and television services have the strongest indirect impact on switching intention, mediated by overall satisfaction and loyalty. Additionally, the results indicate that switching costs and barriers do not significantly affect switching intention, and surprisingly, perceived contractual lock-in positively influences switching intention. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the customer experience with bundled telecommunications services and offers relevant insights for telecommunication managers to prevent customer loss to competitors.
2024
Authors
Oliveira, HG; Rodrigues, R; Ferreira, B; Silvano, P; Carvalho, S;
Publication
PROPOR (1)
Abstract
This paper presents BATS-PT, the manual translation of the lexicographic portion of the Bigger Analogy Test Set (BATS) to European Portuguese. BATS-PT covers ten types of lexico-semantic analogies and can be used for assessing word embeddings and language models. Following this, the dataset is showcased while assessing two pretrained language models for Portuguese, BERTimbau and Albertina, in two tasks: analogy solving and relation completion, both in zero- and few-shot mask-prediction approaches. Experiments reveal different performance across relations and, in both tasks, the best overall performance was achieved with BERTimbau, in a five-shot scenario. We further discuss the limitations of the reported experiments and directions towards future improvements in these tasks. © 2024 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
2024
Authors
Gromann, D; Oliveira, HG; Pitarch, L; Apostol, ES; Bernad, J; Bytyçi, E; Cantone, C; Carvalho, S; Frontini, F; Garabík, R; Gracia, J; Granata, L; Khan, AF; Knez, T; Labropoulou, P; Liebeskind, C; di Buono, MP; Anic, AO; Rackeviciene, S; Rodrigues, R; Sérasset, G; Selmistraitis, L; Sidibé, M; Silvano, P; Spahiu, B; Sogutlu, E; Stankovic, R; Truica, CO; Oleskeviciene, GV; Zitnik, S; Zdravkova, K;
Publication
LREC/COLING
Abstract
2024
Authors
Gromann, D; Apostol, ES; Chiarcos, C; Cremaschi, M; Gracia, J; Gkirtzou, K; Liebeskind, C; Mockiene, L; Rosner, M; Schuurman, I; Sérasset, G; Silvano, P; Spahiu, B; Truica, CO; Utka, A; Oleskeviciene, GV;
Publication
SEMANTIC WEB
Abstract
Limited accessibility to language resources and technologies represents a challenge for the analysis, preservation, and documentation of natural languages other than English. Linguistic Linked (Open) Data (LLOD) holds the promise to ease the creation, linking, and reuse of multilingual linguistic data across distributed and heterogeneous resources. However, individual language resources and technologies accommodate or target different linguistic description levels, e.g., morphology, syntax, phonology, and pragmatics. In this comprehensive survey, the state-of-the-art of multilinguality and LLOD is being represented with a particular focus on linguistic description levels, identifying open challenges and gaps as well as proposing an ideal ecosystem for multilingual LLOD across description levels. This survey seeks to contribute an introductory text for newcomers to the field of multilingual LLOD, uncover gaps and challenges to be tackled by the LLOD community in reference to linguistic description levels, and present a solid basis for a future best practice of multilingual LLOD across description levels.
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