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Analiza doniesień prasowych z wykorzystaniem technik przetwarzania języka naturalnego

The dynamic development of natural language processing results in a growing number of products utilizing so-called speech and language technologies. On the one hand this refers to the possibility of interacting with a computer using a language that people naturally use in speech and writing; one the other – making the information contained in all sorts of texts accessible for a computer. We present how methods for gathering and extracting information can be applied to news releases, to possibly reduce the overhead generated by republishing the same news by numerous internet information portals. We present how web syndication can be used to gather press releases; how to process those texts in order to determine mutual similarity; and how to visualize those. We present preliminary results of an experiment with application of the above-mentioned methods to selected Polish internet portals.

СЕМАНТИКО-ПРАГМАТИЧЕСКИЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ РЕКЛАМНЫХ ТЕКСТОВ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ НАРУЖНОЙ РЕКЛАМЫ)

The article deals with issues related to the features of the functioning and identification of the semantic and pragmatic potential of advertising texts on the example of outdoor advertising. The material of the study was advertising banners selected by continuous sampling from various Internet portals, the content of which is determined by the presence of non-verbal text elements and verbal signs interacting with each other. Outdoor advertising is considered from the point of view of pragmatic potential, the nature of which depends on the choice of language units with a certain denotative and connotative meaning that affects communication strategies. It is shown that when creating an advertising text, the author can use various techniques and methods of influencing the addressee so that the advertising message attracts attention and produces the proper communicative effect (incitement to action). The article considers the advertising text as a semiotically complicated phenomenon, consisting of a set of lexico-semantic means and their relationship with visual elements.

The Use of Information Technologies in the Practice of the Educational Process as a Means of Improving the Quality of Education

The article substantiates the relevance of the need to create an online platform for distance learning, which allows to support students with special educational needs. The problematic issues voiced by school teachers during the transition to distance learning during the period of the threat of the spread of a new infection in the Russian Federation are presented. The main documents on the basis of which the children of this group receive education in schools, including the use of distance technologies, are named. The educational online resources recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation are analyzed in order to identify the material necessary for the psychological and pedagogical support of children with specific educational needs. Examples of various sites and Internet portals used by teachers and psychologists are given. The article implements the developed and tested educational standards of primary general education for students with disabilities, which allow each student with different starting opportunities to create conditions for success in obtaining an education.

Decision support system for selecting the rootstock, irrigation regime and nitrogen fertilization in winemaking vineyards: WANUGRAPE4.0

We aim to develop and transfer to the wine sector a decision support system (DSS) in the frame of WANEGRAPE4.0 project that, integrated into a geographic information system, helps wine growers in i) selecting the most suitable rootstock given some agroecological conditions and oenological objectives; and ii) managing irrigation and nitrogen fertilization in the most suitable way for the selected rootstock and agroecological conditions. The following goals have been achieved. First, the modular structure and information flow of the DSS has been defined. Second, the main algorithms of the water balance module (DSS core part) have been formulated and the module coded in a spreadsheet. Third, this water balance module has been tested with data from field experiments in several regions of Spain. Fourth, the relationships between grapevine water status and production and harvest quality variables have been established, revealing an always-significant effects of the decrease in water stress on vegetative development, yield, and grape composition. Fifth, the nitrogen fertilizer effects on vine performance has been assessed. Sixth, the effects rootstocks have on 5 parameters of vine production and grape quality for winemaking have been established too by doing another meta-analysis of rootstock trials. Seventh, a rootstock selection module has been defined. The WANUGRAPE4.0 project goes on with the integration of all its modules, their coding in a World Wide Web language and their publication on an Internet portal.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЖАНРА ОБЗОРА В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ИГРОВОЙ ЖУРНАЛИСТИКЕ

The article deals with the current state of game journalism, i.e. journalism related to video games. The author of the article discusses how game journalism uses various channels and platforms to communicate with the audience and provide its own content. The main part of the article analyzes the peculiarities of the review genre in video game journalism. Analyzing the scientific literature, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the genre of review in game journalism does not correspond to the genre with the same name in traditional media. It is argued that despite the rigid framework of the game industry, which assigns journalists primarily advertising functions, some of the reviewers seek to act primarily in the interests of game users, gamers. The review genre is analyzed on the materials of the rubrics of the game Internet portal “StopGame.ru”.

Issues of Public Awareness about the Activities of Territorial Public Self-government in Solving Issues of Urban Environment Improvement.

In a modern city, the role of interaction between local governments and the population is increasing. The author considers in detail territorial public self-government (CBT) as an important form of public participation in solving issues of local importance, in particular, landscaping. With the right organization, this institute has a huge potential for involving residents in solving issues of local importance, in particular in the field of urban improvement. The prospects for the development of this institution largely depend on the awareness and involvement of the population in this form of self-government. The low level of public awareness is considered as a factor constraining the development of territorial public self-government. The article presents the results of a survey of residents of the city of Tyumen, which demonstrate a low level of awareness of the population about the activities of CBT. These studies confirmed the need to increase the level of knowledge about the role and tools of CBT among citizens. As a solution to the problem of the existing imbalance between the high potential of CBT and the low level of awareness of the population about its work, the author suggests a number of measures, such as the creation of specialized Internet portals, communities in social networks; the use of social advertising in the media and city events to popularize the activities of CBT. The information base will create an infrastructure for realizing the potential of CBT, will make it possible to identify and implement socially significant initiatives of citizens.

Правовые основы разработки отечественного энтерального питания

We investigated fundamental legal documents concerning the requirements for production, turnover and use of enteral nutrition (EN) products, structured and analyzed them in order to build a generalized system of documents that are the basis for the production, identification of EN products, and the design of manufacturers’ technical documentation. The Russian EN market today is filled mainly with imported products, which, under the conditions of sanctions pressure, can become critical for the food supply of the country as a whole and the main consumers – patients with eating disorders – in particular. The objects of the study were documents that directly or indirectly include requirements for the production and turnover of EN products. Special attention was paid to national strategic planning documents to confirm the relevance of the development of domestic EN products. Search and selection of legal documents was carried out on the official Internet portals of legal information. The formation and development of a specialized food production sector specific to the food industry should be based on fundamental knowledges of such fields of science as medicine and the food industry. Only an integrated approach that takes into account the requirements of both industries allows to form a competitive market for high-quality domestic EN. The study objectives included the collection of fundamental requirements regarding the production, turnover and use of EN products, their structuring and analysis in order to form a generalized document system and identify regulatory framework problem areas that can be a hindrance both for the high-quality domestic EN production and for its implementation to end users – patients with eating disorders. Using of both hierarchical and faceted methods for classification and systematization documents alowed to develop a generalized hierarchical normative legal documents system in the part of the EN, which is necessary for the formation of basic requirements for the design of the EN products range and its subsequent implementation.

Digitalization of the process of assessing scientific institutions that receive government support

The article reveals the state and prospects for the development evaluation process of scientific institutions which is provided with state support in Europe and Ukraine. It has been demonstrated that the effectiveness of assessment processes can be significantly enhanced through the utilization of modern informational tools and digital communication means. Based on an analysis of assessment processes in scientific institutions across European countries and the influencing factors on the conduct of scientific and technical activity evaluations, recommendations have been proposed for the application of information technologies to facilitate the development of assessment processes within scientific institutions. To engage Ukrainian scientists in the country’s scientific and technical landscape, particularly for the purpose of refining the assessment processes of scientific activity, it is advisable to employ a specialized national information system presented through an advanced internet portal. The assessment process involves multi-criteria considerations and ambiguity in the interpretation of many indicators characterizing the activities of a scientific institution. To address tasks of varying informational complexity, the application of an integrated decision support method is proposed. This method incorporates expert ranking techniques for evaluating alternative options, including the method of approval voting, the analytic hierarchy process, analytical network process, as well as ontological data representation within the subject area. This aids in constructing hierarchies and criterion vectors for alternative assessments. Additionally, graph theory is employed to optimize expert processes by visualizing pairwise alternative comparisons. Based on the outcomes of the conducted research, recommendations have been formulated to facilitate the digitization of the process of evaluating the activities of scientific institutions in order to enhance its efficiency.

Machine voice-over translation in social media: Perceived quality of translation of YouTube travel vlogs

One of the challenges of social media as a means of interaction is to ensure media accessibility, i. e. to provide users with a free and unhindered access to the content of computer-mediated communication platforms. In the context of global networking, linguistic constraints due to the use of a verbal code different from the language of the potential user while creating media content, are not the least of the obstacles to such access. Given the obvious dominance of English in the online space, this is mainly a matter of expanding the audience by engaging individuals whose source language proficiency is not sufficient for unimpeded use of social media, in particular for viewing, listening and understanding video content uploaded on video hosting sites and other digital platforms. Since user-generated video content is generally characterised by individual and independent production, free accessibility and target audiences sharing a common interest for a specific subject matter, regardless of their residence area and language affiliation, human audio-visual translation is not considerable in such circumstances. For this reason, as a way to overcome language barriers and ensure media accessibility, the most advanced Internet portals are beginning to implement Web-based online machine translation solutions, made possible by the development of linguistic digital technologies. The survey conducted as a part of this study has shed light on the users’ perception of machine voice-over translation of English-language travel vlogs into Russian, and formulated some hypotheses regarding the ways to further improve its quality. The empirical evidence for this study was obtained from a two-step survey involving users and experts (audiovisual translators) who assessed the quality of machine voice translation of English-language travel vlog into Russian. According to the results ontained machine translation seems to be conceptually acceptable as a means of enabling language media accessibility in social media.

THE "REVOLVING DOORS" PRACTICE IN RUSSIA: MOVEMENTS FROM PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO GR-MANAGEMENT OF COMPANIES (BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF BIOGRAPHIES)

The article discusses the practice of transitions of public officials to the GR-management of companies and the factors that determine it. The empirical basis of research is a biographical database of 279 GR directors included in the ratings published in the Kommersant newspaper in 2010-2021. For each of them, a biographical questionnaire was filled out containing information about the date of birth, type of education and career path; which was then statistically processed. The sources of information were the websites of companies, authorities and other organizations, corporate reports, media materials, biographical Internet portals. The author makes a number of conclusions. Firstly, although work experience in state apparatus is quite widespread among GR managers, it is not an indispensable prerequisite for holding such positions. Secondly, most common among GR managers are figures with experience in the federal administration (especially in economic departments), while people from representative bodies, as well as from regional and local administrations, are much less common. Thirdly, most often people from public authorities work as GR managers in state-owned companies, and least often in foreign companies. In terms of industry, the most common political and administrative experience is among managers in industries that are highly subject to state regulation, such as the fuel and energy complex and metallurgy. At the same time, there is a tendency for officials to move to work in companies belonging to subordinate industries. The factors of transition of politicians and officials to the positions of GR managers are considered, in particular, such as career interests of statesmen, legislative restrictions on the employment of officials in business after resignation, the interest of firms in hiring people from the state apparatus. It is noted that the mass migration of public figures into business may create a conflict of interest.

Interconnecting Vipassana with Human Health and School Curriculum

A desk review was done to analyze the relevance of Vipassana with the overall dimensions of health and to find out its interconnection with the school curriculum for enhancing the education sector and shifting the paradigm. Secondary data were collected via an internet online portal and analyzed by making a theme. Literature shows that Vipassana has a tremendous positive impact on human health dimensions like physical, mental, social, psychological, and spiritual health. Vipassana with its moral code and precepts is found to help in fostering peaceful feelings, equanimity, and compassion, thus assisting social integrity. Relying on this fact, there is a great possibility of interconnecting Vipassana with the school curriculum. No review has been found on social well-being and spiritual health in a collaborative form which could be a future recommendation.

추억 감성을 활용한 스토리텔링 패션제품 리디자인 기획과 제작

Background/Objectives: This study aims to plan a memory redesign process and produce actual fashion products accordingly.
 Methods: The methods were literature reviews and case studies. The research papers and Internet sources on storytelling, memory emotion, and redesign were examined. Further, Depth-interviews and production processes were conducted. Through literature research, we defined a concept of storytelling and discovered trend of redesign in the fashion industry. Moreover, we explored the processes and products of design planning cases through storytelling with customers. Fashion brands that specifically revealed the procedures and contents of the work produced through storytelling with customers were selected as the case study by searching “storytelling design” on an Internet portal site using keywords.
 Results: Based on the study, the memory redesign process was planned as 1) a contest and client selection; 2) memory storytelling involving depth-interview and keyword derivation; 3) design planning involving concept setting and mapping; 4) work creation involving draft presentation, decomposition, and combination; 5) sharing thoughts. Accordingly, the process of recruiting clients and producing memory-sensitive products in person through in-depth interviews of a selected person was revealed, and the individual memory sensibility and redesign method were summarized. The “decomposition and combination” method, which is most widely used in the fashion industry, was used as the redesign technique at the time.
 Conclusion/Implications: This study focuses on the emotional value of personal memories contained in fashion products. Further, it can expand the area of customization by individuals at the product planning stage and contribute to the development of sustainable fashion sector by redesigning the products that individuals had.

Czy pytać to tylko ‘zadawać pytanie’? Kilka uwag o medialnym użyciu tego czasownika

The verb pytać [to ask] is one of the basic verba dicendi, thus its meaning seems obvious and its lexicographical descriptions exhaustive. At the same time, contemporary uses of this lexeme in the media suggest the presence of additional components, not yet taken into account in the studies of this verb. The author will therefore analyse selected quotations from informative Internet portals and TV dailies in order to then attempt to answer the question posed in the title. The description will take into account the pragmatic elements of the utterance: its context, information about the sender and the assumed recipient, as well as the entire communication situation; the conclusions will, in turn, be confronted with descriptions of the verb pytać [to ask] present in the linguistic literature.

Senzacionalizam i političke svađe: analiza medijskog izvještavanja o procesu ratifikacije Istanbulske konvencije u Hrvatskoj

In order to establish supervision over the implementation of the law on the suppression of violence against women, the Council of Europe designed the Istanbul Convention, the ratification of which was voted by Croatia on April 13, 2018. The document caused public disagreement and political strife in Croatia, and the way the media reported on this problem was of significant importance in the process of creating public perception and public opinion. The main goal of this paper is to point out the biased media reporting on the process of ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia. Qualitative and quantitative content analysis and discourse analysis were used, and the research was conducted on a sample of 882 articles published on six internet portals in the period from March 13 to April 13, 2018. The analysis confirmed the assumption that the most read Croatian portals focused on conflicts. and social division, and the most media attention was given to politicians and their conflicts. Although most portals maintained their neutrality when writing short news and reports, editorial preference could clearly be deduced from the selection of commentators and columnists. Almost no article emphasized the experiences of abused women and the importance of ratifying such a document for their safety and future.

American youth slang in Russian media

The formation of the global media space contributes to the active penetration of a different, non-Russian, culture in the domestic media, with one or another broadcast lifestyle having a great impact on the behaviour of young people, shaping, among other things, their oral and written speech through slang. Slang is a rather actively developing lexical layer, new slang units appear in the language every day, they reflect not only cultural values, priorities and aspirations of those who use them, but also demonstrate specific ways of shaping thinking. The study of American slang words and their influence on contemporary Russian youth is especially relevant in the context of information warfare. The authors examine slang words that are reflected in the Russian-language media and social networks, as well as the peculiarities of their influence on the cultural values of adolescents. The materials with slang words, posted from January 2019 to February 2022 in social networks TikTok, VKontakte, on the youth Internet portals QRU, Spletnik, Elle Girl were selected by the method of continuous sampling. The authors reveal their meaning in the context of the analysed publications and come to the conclusion that the active use of such slang units as, for example, crash, cheater, flex, ROFL indicates the priority of idleness in the leisure time of young people. At the same time, teenagers show a lack of interest in cultural leisure: there are no slang expressions for such activities as going to a museum, sightseeing, theatre, concert hall or library.

The Republic of Poland in the United Nations Security Council (2018 – 2019) and the Ukrainian Question

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the activities of the representatives of the Republic of Poland in the UN Security Council in the status of a non-permanent member in 2018-2019, in particular regarding the resolving of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The method of content analysis of state program documents, Internet portals of the government of the Republic of Poland and the United Nations, and scientific literature was used in the implementation of the goal. The problem-chronological method made it possible to trace the history of the participation of the Republic of Poland in the UN. The methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the new understanding of the role of Polish diplomacy in the UN Security Council after the occupation of Crimea and the start of Russia's hybrid war in Donbas. The analysis made it possible to formulate the following conclusions. The Republic of Poland – one of the founding states of the UN – tried to be an active member of the organization, including by participating in the work of its main bodies. Poland was elected a non-permanent member of the Security Council six times. The main priorities of Polish diplomacy at the UN Security Council in 2018-2019 included: respect for international law, protection of civilians in armed conflicts, peace and security in Eastern Europe. Much attention was paid to the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which, thanks to the Polish side, did not disappear from the body's agenda and was discussed in various contexts. The Polish delegates consistently reminded about the negative impact of the violation of international law and agreements by the Russian Federation, the situation in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas, and in the Black and Azov seas. They tried to present the consequences of the occupation of Crimea and the war in Donbas not only as a problem of regional security, but also as a global challenge to the international legal order. The Polish state made a significant contribution to the formation and strengthening of the international coalition in support of Ukraine in countering the aggression of the Russian Federation. An obstacle to an effective resolution of the Ukrainian issue was primarily the specificity and composition of the UN Security Council, where non-permanent members play only a limited role, and one of the permanent members is an aggressor country. The example of the debate surrounding the resolution of the Ukrainian issue once again proves the deficit of UN deep reform

Impact of information credibility on social media information adoption behavior: a systematic literature review

PurposeThe purpose of this systematic literature review was to collect and review the studies published worldwide in English language presenting the persuasive role of information/content credibility (IC) on the information adoption behavior (IAB) of social media users.Design/methodology/approachThe relevant literature was searched by the reviewers from two specialized databases, i.e. Library, Information Science and Technological Abstract (LISTA) and Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), whereas five general databases, i.e. Emerald, Springer Link, Taylor and Francis Online, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global and Google Scholar, using the Internet (portal) services available at the two Pakistani universities, i.e. University of Sargodha and the University of the Punjab. The search was updated in February 2022.FindingsThe results of this study revealed that there was a significant impact of IC over the IAB of social media users.Originality/valueThis study is the first of its nature that aims to collect and present a systematic review of the literature based on empirical evidence of the influential role of IC on the IAB of social media users.

Polish immigrants’ access to colorectal cancer screening in Norway – a qualitative study

BackgroundThe Norwegian colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme started in May 2022. Inequities in uptake of CRC screening is a concern, and we expect that immigrants are at risk of non-uptake. Immigrants from Poland are the most populous immigrant group in Norway. The purpose of this study was to identify and explore factors that may facilitate Polish immigrants’ access to the Norwegian CRC screening programme.Material and methodsThis study was based on qualitative interviews with ten Polish immigrants in Norway. The participants represented a convenience sample that varied in terms of gender, education, employment, time in Norway, place of residence, Norwegian language skills and ties to the Norwegian-Polish community. We performed thematic content analysis to understand CRC screening from the perspective of Polish immigrants, using transnationalism and Levesque’s conceptualization of accessibility as theoretical frameworks.ResultsWe grouped our findings into three themes; “understanding of CRC development and the need to access health care”, “binationalism” and “improving accessibility through information”. Within these themes, various factors influenced the participants’ accessibility to CRC screening, namely knowledge about the screening and about causes, development and prevention of the disease, language, choice of screening country, trust in health personnel’s competence, information needs, methods and sources, as well as participants’ perception of the faecal immunochemical test screening user manual. These factors were further influenced by communication between the Polish community in Norway and Poland, as well as travel between the countries.ConclusionWe identified several factors that can be targeted with an aim to increase Polish immigrants’ access to the Norwegian CRC screening programme. Effective measures could include increasing cultural competence among health care providers and providing information in Polish through Polish-speaking health care professionals, general practitioners and internet portals used by the Polish-speaking community. Focusing on accessibility in a transnational setting, our findings may be of interest for policy makers and service providers planning preventive health measures for immigrants.

Integrated Two Variant Deep Learners for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: An Improved Meta-Heuristic-Based Model

Several traditional methods were tested on standard datasets to evaluate client emotions transmitted via internet portals. Customers, on the other hand, continue to have difficulty obtaining aspect-oriented viewpoints voiced by other customers, and the accuracy of the current model is insufficient. The suggested Aspect-Based Sentimental Analysis (ABSA) starts with pre-processing, which includes “stop word and punctuation removal, lower case conversion, and stemming.” Aspect extraction, which entails dividing the nouns and adjectives, as well as verbs and adverbs, is the following step. The weighted polarity features from the “Vader sentiment intensity analyzer, as well as the word2vector and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF)” are concatenated. OIDL stands for Optimized Integrated Deep Learning, which combines two types of deep learners. The first is the combination of concatenated features with “Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN),” while the second is the combination of concatenated features with RNN. The Improved Coyote Optimization Algorithm (ICOA) improves both deep learners, and the conclusion of sentiment analysis result is considered both models. Thus, the suggested model surpasses standard methodologies regarding precision and accuracy, according to the results of the experiments.

Skutki społeczne pandemii COVID-19 w Republice Słowackiej

The article’s main objective is to present the social impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic in the Slovak Republic. It describes its course (from March2020 to April 2022) and the legal regulations introduced at that time to limitits impact. The most critical demonstrations against restrictions to preventthe spread of the coronavirus are described. Special attention is paid to theeffects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education system and the functioningof churches and religious associations. The analysis uses mainly articlesfrom Slovak Internet portals, but also is based on the public opinion pollsconducted during the pandemic (2020-2022). According to the authors, theanti-pandemic measures taken by the Slovak authorities are characterised bya restrictive approach, which contributed to a deepening of social divisions.As a result, public support for them and vaccination was relatively low, andSlovakia is one of the countries with the lowest percentage of vaccinatedpeople in the European Union.