De La Salle University

About: De La Salle University is a education organization based out in Manila, Philippines. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Computer science. The organization has 2951 authors who have published 4374 publications receiving 49567 citations. The organization is also known as: Pamantasang De La Salle.

Information extraction from legal documents

Abstract: Legal TRUTHS (TuRning Unstructured Texts to Helpful Structure) is a system that extracts relevant information from Philippine Supreme Court decisions, specifically on criminal cases. We describe here the processes involved in the development of Legal TRUTHS focusing on the issues relating to the domain and the geographical setting of the source documents, and the performance evaluation results are also presented. Pertinent information to be extracted for criminal cases such as the crime, the date and time of commission, the plaintiff, and the penalty were determined from a sample set of documents. Sections of these documents were identified for initial segmentation of the data. Automatic filtering of the data was involved in drawing out relevant information from the texts. From 25 training documents and also the same set for testing, performance showed over-all precision at 91.7%, recall at 99.5%, and F-measure at 95.6%. Testing on another 50 documents showed over-all precision at 84.3%, recall at 95.8%, and F-measure at 91.0%.

Developing an Appropriate Performance Measurement Framework for Total Quality Management (TQM) in Construction and Other Industries

Abstract: Total quality management (TQM) is a set of opinions and ideas that widely called “management philosophy”. This management technique is able to assist the construction firms in improving continuously the organization's performance, in order to satisfy customers and survive in the market. The success of TQM implementation is tightly dependent on identifying and selecting the appropriate critical success factors (CSFs), quality tools, and performance measures (KPIs) within TQM framework. Doubtlessly, a set of suitable performance measures (indicators) has a significant role to verify and ensure that TQM implementation can successfully achieve its aims in the organization. Thus, the main purpose of this paper was to develop a suitable framework to assess the effects of TQM implementation on organization's performance in construction industry. For this aim, the study was conducted a comprehensive literature review to specify the existing key performance indicators (KPIs) from 26 TQM frameworks that formulated by scholars. In data analysis, the only 20 KPIs were found of 26 TQM studies. The extracted KPIs (20) classified based on four dimensions of balanced scorecard (BSC), and then arranged from highest to lowest frequency for each perspective of BSC. Finally, a total of ten KPIs were determined and presented within BSC system as an appropriate performance measures framework, which enables evaluating critical areas that very vital to the success of TQM implementation in construction firms at project and enterprise levels.

Merging, Masquerading and Morphing: Metaphors and the World Wide Web:

Abstract: We examine the role of metaphors in relation to Web-based phenomena through a comparative study of 29 Web portals, established under a World Bank project known as the Development Gateway. Our analysis suggests that three metaphors — expert, market and community — are particularly significant across these portals, either separately or in combination. The study indicates three particular ways in which these metaphors can combine — merging, masquerading and morphing. We conclude by discussing the implications of using metaphor to understand how practitioners design Web portals and how users engage with them.