Browsing School of Computer Science and Statistics by Author "Lawless, Séamus"
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Exploring Linked Data For The Automatic Enrichment of Historical Archives
PANDIT, HARSHVARDHAN JITENDRA; Munnelly, Gary; Lawless, Séamus (2018)With the increasing scale of online cultural heritage collections, the efforts of manually adding annotations to their contents become a challenging and costly endeavour. Entity Linking is a process used to automatically ... -
The Impact of Increasing and Decreasing the Professionalism of News Webpage Aesthetics on the Perception of Bias in News Articles
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (Springer, 2020-07-19)This paper reports further results from a large study examining the impact of the visual aesthetics of news websites on the perception of bias in news articles. It focuses on the characteristic of professionalism, which ... -
Increasing and Decreasing Perceived Bias by Distorting the Quality of News Website Design
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 2018)News website design has previously been shown to impact perceived credibility, and one of its core dimensions and measures, bias. This paper demonstrates that by adapting the quality of the visual presentation of webpages ... -
Measuring Bias in News Websites, Towards a Model for Personalization
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (2017)This poster briefly elucidates on a crowdsourced exploratory study demonstrating the impact of common features of news websites' design on perceived bias. Type of news website, user characteristics, and the overall design, ... -
OntoSeg: a Novel Approach to Text Segmentation using Ontological Similarity
Bayomi, Mostafa; Levacher, Killian; Ghorab, M.Rami; Lawless, Séamus (2015)Text segmentation (TS) aims at dividing long text into coherent segments which reflect the subtopic structure of the text. It is beneficial to many natural language processing tasks, such as Information Retrieval (IR) and ... -
Perception of Bias: The Impact of User Characteristics, Website Design and Technical Features
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (ACM, 2017)Bias, whether real or perceived by the user, is inherent in news media. In this paper, we demonstrate that user characteristics, the design and common technical features of news websites impact users' perception of bias. ... -
Tabloidization versus Credibility: Short Term Gain for Long Term Pain
Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Brady, Michael; Hoe, Isla; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (ACM, 2020)Print news agencies have been under pressure from falling sales and advertising revenue and increased competition. As the Internet became the dominant medium, news agencies invested heavily in their websites and apps, ...