Interview with Merijn Oudenampsen published on the INC blog.
Information structure facilitates communication between interlocutors by highlighting relevant information. It has previously been shown that information structure modulates the depth of semantic processing. Here we used event-related potentials to investigate whether information structure can modulate the depth of syntactic processing. In question-answer pairs, subtle (number agreement) or salient (phrase structure) syntactic violations were placed either in focus or out of focus through information structure marking. P600 effects to these violations reflect the depth of syntactic processing. For subtle violations, a P600 effect was observed in the focus condition, but not in the non-focus condition. For salient violations, comparable P600 effects were found in both conditions. These results indicate that information structure can modulate the depth of syntactic processing, but that this effect depends on the salience of the information. When subtle violations are not in focus, they are processed less elaborately. We label this phenomenon the Chomsky illusion.
With the introduction of research activities in higher professional education in the Dutch higher education system, the notions of ‘research’ that were previously silently agreed upon among academics in traditional universities also came under pressure. Additionally, bothtypes of higher education actively claim to have educational programs of a different character. The ground underneath the difference is claimed to be the presence of distinct research activities. This study considers this difference through the discourse on ‘research’ of lecturers in both higher professional education and university education. In interviews, lecturers were asked to judge an argument on their own work-related activities to be ‘research’ or ‘nonresearch’. Through a network-analysis approach, the data results in five discursive building blocks that all lecturers apply in their arguments, and three discursive themes on research. Furthermore, this research indicates that differences among lecturers on discursive themes areonly partly based on institutional differences.
Despite Dutch Hospitality industry’s significant economic value, employers struggle to attract and retain early career professionals at a time when tourism is forecasted to grow exponentially (Ruël, 2018). Universally, hospitality management graduates are shunning hospitality careers preferring other career paths; stimulating the Dutch Hospitality to find innovative ways of attracting and retaining early career professionals. Following calls from the Human Resource Management (HRM) community (Ehnert, 2009), we attribute this trend to personnel being depicted as rentable resources, driving profit’’ often at personal expense. For example, hotels primarily employ immigrants and students for a minimum wage suppressing salaries of local talent (Kusluvan, et al 2010, O’Relly and Pfeffer, 2010). Similarly, flattening organizational structures have eliminated management positions, placing responsibility on inexperienced shoulders, with vacancies commonly filled by pressured employees accepting unpaid overtime jeopardizing their work life balance (Davidson, et al 2010,). These HRM practices fuel attrition by exposing early career professionals to burnout (Baum et al, 2016, Goh et al, 2015, Deery and Jog, 2009). Collectively this has eroded the industry’s employer brand, now characterized by unsocial working hours, poor compensation, limited career opportunities, low professional standing, high turnover and substance abuse (Mooney et al, 2016, Gehrels and de Looij, 2011). In contrast, Sustainable HRM “enables an organizational goal achievement while simultaneously reproducing the human resource base over a long-lasting calendar time (Ehnert, 2009, p. 74).” Hence, to overcome this barrier we suggest embracing the ROC framework (Prins et al, 2014), which (R)espects internal stakeholders, embraces an (O)pen HRM approach while ensuring (C)ontinuity of economic and societal sustainability which could overcome this barrier. Accordingly, we will employ field research, narrative discourse, survey analysis and quarterly workshops with industry partners, employees, union representatives, hotel school students to develop sustainable HRM practices attracting and retaining career professionals to pursue Dutch hospitality careers.
Hoe kan data science ingezet worden om berichtenstromen beter te structureren voor journalisten die te maken krijgen met een grote stroom van buitenlandse stroom van data. Dat is waarnaar gekeken wordt in dit project bij een Nederlandse radiostation dat nieuws verstrekt over Soedan: Radio Dabanga.Doel Doelen in dit project zijn als volgt: Inzicht van topic modelling en discourse analysis in de context van dit radiostation Inzicht van user similarity index in deze context van dit radiostation Bij positief resultaat: guiding principles betreffende transparantie en presentatie resultaten Een Prototype voor de Berichtentemmer, een tool die helpt berichten te structureren Resultaten Resultaten van dit project vallen onder het bouwen van een netwerk dat onderzoek kan doen rond het thema van data science. Daarnaast valt een mogelijk prototype voor een tool die helpt berichten uit verschillende kanalen te structureren. Looptijd 02 december 2019 - 01 juli 2020 Aanpak Binnen dit onderzoek wordt gebruik gemaakt van drie methoden: 1 Topic modeling: dat kijkt naar text mining tools die in dit project kunnen helpen om de content van het bericht te analyseren. 2 Discourse analyse: Hierbij wordt gekeken naar de tone of voice van berichten, waar scenario's uit gedistilleerd kunnen worden. 3 User Similarity Index: Dit gaat over de afzenders van de berichten. Waarbij via deze manier gekeken wordt naar de betrouwbaarheid van de afzenders van berichten. Daarnaast wordt bij al deze methoden gekeken naar de ethische vragen rond: - de transparantie van algoritmes - De waardenvrije presentatie van de resultaten
