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An Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processing
Publication . Carnaz, Gonçalo; Antunes, Mário; Nogueira, Vitor Beires
Criminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collection, preservation of the chain of custody, and other methods and techniques of investigation. These techniques produce both digital and paper documents that have to be carefully analyzed to identify correlations and interactions among suspects, places, license plates, and other entities that are mentioned in the investigation. The computerized processing of these documents is a helping hand to the criminal investigation, as it allows the automatic identification of entities and their relations, being some of which difficult to identify manually. There exists a wide set of dedicated tools, but they have a major limitation: they are unable to process criminal reports in the Portuguese language, as an annotated corpus for that purpose does not exist. This paper presents an annotated corpus, composed of a collection of anonymized crime-related documents, which were extracted from official and open sources. The dataset was produced as the result of an exploratory initiative to collect crime-related data from websites and conditioned-access police reports. The dataset was evaluated and a mean precision of 0.808, recall of 0.722, and F1-score of 0.733 were obtained with the classification of the annotated named-entities present in the crime-related documents. This corpus can be employed to benchmark Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools to detect and correlate entities in the documents. Some examples are sentence detection, named-entity recognition, and identification of terms related to the criminal domain.
Power and Empowerment: community-based tourism and the perception of empowerment experienced by women in the rural village of Paramin, Trinidad & Tobago
Publication . Touche, Khadesha La; Caetano, Marta Lúcia Clemente de Aguilar; Brasão, Inês Paulo Cordeiro
Empowerment as a theory has been studied within the tourism industry in many dimensions such as social constructs. However, in the Caribbean, gender-focused studies on women’s role in tourism have mainly focused on sex tourism. Women meanwhile play a larger and crucial part in the tourism workforce in the Caribbean, the most tourism-dependent zone in the world according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). As a marginalised group, their activity in community-based tourism sectors provide benefits for them that spread to their wider community and support their empowerment. These activities can provide new niche tourism activities, preserve cultural heritage as well as provide benefits such as employment for other marginalised societal groups.
Taking into account the lack of research in this area, studies must be done in order to support sustainable tourism policy development in the Caribbean. This dissertation thus has the goal of examining the perception of empowerment experienced by women in tourism businesses in rural Trinidad. Using the village of Paramin as the backdrop, semi open interviews were conducted to give voice to the village women’s experiences and shed light on the way they have perceived their empowerment through the leveraging of their tourism-related businesses and activities for tourism development in Trinidad & Tobago.
Aprendizagem Interorganizacional e Capacidade Absortiva: Investigação em Pequenas e Médias Empresas
Publication . Cassol, Alessandra; Tonial, Graciele; Werlang, Nathalia B.
Objetivo: Esta pesquisa analisa a influência da aprendizagem interorganizacional (AIO) sobre a capacidade absortiva (Acap), potencial (Pacap) e realizada (Racap), no ambiente de pequenas e médias empresas (PMEs).
Originalidade/valor: O estudo contribuiu para o entendimento e a expansão das pesquisas da AIO operacionalizadas por meio dos elementos da Acap. A compreensão desses elementos é fundamental para o desenvolvimento de novas competências das PMEs brasileiras e/ou de países emergentes, imersas em setores dinâmicos e de alta mobilidade tecnológica, para se adaptarem e desenvolverem novas capacidades dinâmicas.
Design/metodologia/abordagem: A pesquisa foi realizada por meio de uma survey em uma amostra de 215 PMEs do setor de tecnologia da informação e comunicação (TIC) no estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Os dados foram analisados a partir da técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais.
Resultados: Os resultados demonstraram que as relações de AIO são capazes de influenciar o desenvolvimento de novas competências e possuem forte influência sobre o desenvolvimento da Acap. A habilidade das organizações em adquirir, assimilar, aplicar e internalizar os conhecimentos disponíveis no setor, por meio de relações interorganizacionais, foi fundamental para a adaptação e sobrevivência.
Investigação Qualitativa: Diferentes abordagens em Educação
Publication . Costa, António Pedro; Freitas, Fábio; Sanmamed, Mercedes González
Apresentação do Dossier sobre investigação qualitativa e as diferentes abordagens em Educação.
How a Tourism City Responds to COVID-19: A CEE Perspective (Kraków Case Study)
Publication . Kowalczyk-Anioł, Joanna; Grochowicz, Marek; Pawlusiński, Robert
Academic papers on the COVID-19 pandemic and tourism adopt the perspective of strengthening tourism resilience or recognize the ongoing crisis as an opportunity for reflection and the need to redefine tourism development strategies. This article examines these issues using the example of Kraków, a tourism city that, on the eve of the pandemic outbreak, was experiencing symptoms of overtourism. Using a case study approach, the authors illustrate the strategies applied at the city level, as well as the range of measures and actions used to support the tourism industry during the full pandemic year. The Kraków case shows that the pandemic time can be used to reorganize relations between local tourism stakeholders and to create a new formula for a tourism city in the so-called ‘new normal’. In addition, the exploratory case study allows for the formulation of research problems for further work on tourism cities responses to COVID-19. This can focus on a revision of the tourist offer and profile; the role of culture and the accompanying technology-facilitated innovations; the continuation of ‘being-a-tourist-in-your-own-city’, as promoted in the pandemic; tourists’ reactions to introduced changes; and shaping (new) relations between tourism stakeholders in the (post)pandemic city.