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Attitudes towards the Covid-19 vaccine on Twitter in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)The goal of this thesis is to characterize the distribution of attitudes present on Norwegian Twitter concerning the Covid-19 vaccine by implementing methods for text analysis and social media network analysis. The first ... -
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these ... -
Auditee Strategies - An Investigation of Auditees’ Reactions to the Norwegian State Audit Institution’s Performance Audits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This article contributes to theory on accountability – how it is played out and responded to. It uses the Norwegian State Audit Institution (SAI) as an illustration. The responses of the audited entities to the SAI’s ... -
Auditors' understanding of evidence: A performance audit of an urban development programme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)This article uses a case study to analyse two main dilemmas that performance auditors face when auditing complex interventions in governance. The first dilemma, concerning the performance auditors’ roles as improvement ... -
Australia: fra hverdagsland til søndagsland
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Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the origins and determinants of these attitudes, consensus has not yet ... -
Automated analysis of Norwegian text
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-28)In this thesis we look at how we can develop automated analysis tools for Norwegian text. We look at 3 different tasks: Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging, Named-Entity Chunking (NEC), and Named-Entity Recognition (NER). For our ... -
Automated classification of debris-covered glaciers combining optical, SAR and topographic data in an object-based environment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12)Satellite imagery is increasingly used to monitor glacier area changes and create glacier inventories. Robust and efficient pixel-based band ratios have proven to be accurate for automatically delineating clean glacier ... -
Automated detection of rock glaciers using deep learning and object-based image analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rock glaciers are an important component of the cryosphere and are one of the most visible manifestations of permafrost. While the significance of rock glacier contribution to streamflow remains uncertain, the contribution ... -
Automated Front Detection - Using computer vision and machine learning to explore a new direction in automated weather forecasting
(Master thesis, 2017-04-22)In weather forecasting, automation and computing are the driving forces of innovation. More computing power and better techniques allow for faster and more accurate weather data systems. The task of detecting fronts ... -
Automated Identification of Severe Errors in Speech to Text Transcripts
(Master thesis, 2023-06-02)In this thesis we explore how problematic misplaced words can be automatically identified in speech-to-text-transcripts. Automatic Speech Recognition systems (ASR) are systems that can automatically generate text from human ... -
Automated Model Conceptualization and Interactive Modeling Environment: A Software Prototype
(Master thesis, 2019-08-14)In system dynamics modeling process, modelers retrieve information from various sources to come up with a model that is able to reproduce a problematic behavior, then based on the model, policies are designed to alleviate ... -
Automated Moderation: Detecting Irony in a Norwegian Facebook Comment Section using a Longformer Transformer Model with a Context Encoded Dataset
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)Irony is a complex phenomenon of human communication and due to its contextual nature has been notoriously difficult for machine learning algorithms to detect. With an established practical definition of irony based in the ... -
An automated system to analyze system dynamics model
(Master thesis, 2004)For a very long time, software oriented to analyze system dynamics models using eigenvalue analysis technique was not more than a dream. System Dynamics has been hampered by the lack of such software used to analyze the ... -
Automatic Detection of Manipulative Consent Management Platforms and the Journey into the Patterns of Darkness
(Chapter, 2023)We study how to automatically classify different types of manipulative interface design pattern for Content Management Platforms (CMPs), also known as a cookie consents. Our approach uses a scraper to extract different ... -
Automatic detection on CMPs and the journey into the patterns of darkness
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Automatic Encoding From Natural Language to First-Order Horn Clauses
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)A central topic within the field of machine ethics, and other fields where moral reasoning is needed, is to incorporate large quanta of (moral) rules represented in natural language using a formal specification that can ... -
Automatic Facial Anonymisation Using Average Face Morphing. An explorative attempt at designing a tool for investigating the normative views of journalism practices in dealing with manipulation and usage of facial press photographies.
(Master thesis, 2017-07-08)This thesis describes the process of developing and evaluating a design science research artefact for anonymising faces in images. The artefact is developed for use in RRI-research in the ViSmedia research group at the ... -
Automatic quiz generation for elderly people
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)Studies have indicated that games can be beneficial for the elderly, in areas such as cognitive functioning and well-being. Taking part in social activities, such as playing a game with others, could also be beneficial. ...