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Towards Building Knowledge Graphs from Natural Language Text with Open Relation Extraction and Semantic Disambiguation
(Master thesis, 2019-03-23)Natural language text, from messages on social media to articles in newspapers, constitutes a significant portion of the content available on the Web. These texts are readable by humans, but cannot easily be used for ... -
Towards Ontological Support for Journalistic Angles
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Journalism relies more and more on information and communication technology (ICT). New journalistic ICT platforms continuously harvest potentially news-related information from the internet and try to make it useful for ... -
Towards Responsible Media Recommendation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ... -
Towards Understanding the Causal Relationships in Proliferating SD Education—A System Dynamics Group Modelling Approach in China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Given the growing importance of system dynamics (SD) in solving increasingly complex and dynamic problems in any country, we believe SD education will become an imperative leverage point in helping us deal with our uncertain ... -
Traces of Grace : An Autoethnographic Exploration of Faith as Embodied Knowledge
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-09-28)In my PhD-thesis I explore the embodiment of the Christian faith and spirituality, from the perspective of faith as an embodied knowledge, incorporating my own spiritual seeking in the endeavour to understand other people’s ... -
Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We propose a new model for forming and revising beliefs about unknown probabilities. To go beyond what is known with certainty and represent the agent’s beliefs about probability, we consider a plausibility map, associating ... -
Tracking trust - Investigating how social capital influences economic development in Latin America.
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis investigates how social capital can lead to enhanced economic development through lowering transaction costs and promoting labour productivity and investment. The research question is: How does social capital ... -
Trade and Capital Movements in a Globalizing World
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Trade liberalization: The right engine of growth? A quantitative analysis
(Master thesis, 2007)Do lower barriers to international trade induce a positive effect on economic growth? This has been a highly debated issue within the field of economics for more than a century. Several studies find a positive relationship ... -
The trade-off between admitting and paying: Experimental evidence on attitudes towards asylum responsibility-sharing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The concentration of the world's refugees in developing countries calls for international collaboration on the matter. In the face of concerns voiced not only amongst politicians but also the public, we investigate how ... -
Trafikkreduksjon og bilfrihet i Bergen
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Dette studiet tar for seg tematikken bilfrihet og reduksjon av personbiltrafikk i Bergen. Formålet har vært å undersøke hovedproblemstillingen hvordan Bergen kommune arbeider for en bilfri by. Oppgaven har tatt utgangspunkt ... -
Tragedy of the Commons in Groundwater Resources And Evaluating Strategies to Achieve Sustainable Development (A Case Study of Iran)
(Master thesis, 2019-09-10)At present, many countries (including Iran) face "extremely high" levels of water stress, which means more than 80 percent of the water available to agricultural, domesc, and industrial users is withdrawn from groundwater ... -
Training agencies as intermediary organisations in apprentice training in Norway and Switzerland: general purpose or niche production tools?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years Norway and Switzerland have introduced local training agencies (TAs), local intermediary organisations consisting of firms involved in apprentice training. In both countries, the starting point for the ... -
Training Googles SyntaxNet to understand Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We use Google’s open source neural network framework, SyntaxNet, to train a fully automatic part-of-speech language tagger for Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk. Using SyntaxNet, we are able to get comparable results with other ... -
Trajectories of Mental Health Problems in Childhood and Adult Voting Behaviour: Evidence from the 1970s British Cohort Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The link between childhood mental health difficulties such as conduct problems and adult political abstention has been overlooked despite early mental health difficulties potentially resulting in political self-marginalisation. ... -
Transformation as relational mobilisation: The networked geography of Addis Ababa’s sustainable transport interventions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Literatures on sustainability transition and transformation increasingly emphasise the role of spatiality and local agency. This paper argues that relational thinking has much more to offer this debate than presently ... -
Transformation of New Public Management: shaping a hybrid in Nepal?
(Master thesis, 2008-08-04)This study finds evidences in support of a thesis of divergence in shaping of new public management (NPM). The underpinning of the study is that NPM gains a new hybrid shape as it goes through a complex interactive process ... -
Transforming food systems at local levels: using participatory system dynamics in an interactive manner to refine small-scale farmers’ mental models
(Journal article, 2017-10)Food systems will need to undergo considerable transformation. To be better prepared for and resilient to uncertainty and disturbances in the future, resource users and managers need to further develop knowledge about the ... -
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of ... -
Transgressive spillerkarakterer: Kjønnsstereotyper og giftig spillkultur rundt The Last of Us Part 2
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)Med utgangspunkt i protagonistene Ellie og Abby, i spillet The Last of Us Part 2 (2020), undersøker jeg hvordan disse kvinnelige spillerkarakterer kan oppleves som grenseoverskridende, altså transgressive, og hvordan de ...