Anne L Washington

Conference Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · January 1, 2022 Our collaboration seeks to demonstrate shared interrogation by exploring the ethics of machine learning benchmarks from a socio-technical management perspective with insight from public health and ethnic studies. Benchmarks, such as ImageNet, are annotated ... Cite

Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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Whose side are ethics codes on? Power, responsibility and the social good

Conference Fat 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency · January 27, 2020 The moral authority of ethics codes stems from an assumption that they serve a unified society, yet this ignores the political aspects of any shared resource. The sociologist Howard S. Becker challenged researchers to clarify their power and responsibility ... Full text Cite

Open government data and file formats: Constraints on collaboration

Conference ACM International Conference Proceeding Series · June 7, 2017 This exploratory interpretive case study investigated the collaborative potential of open government data available through data.gov, the US federal open data catalog. Open data is a central aspect of open government collaboration because it fosters exchan ... Full text Cite

Understanding shifting dynamics of power in state governments through social networks

Conference 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems Amcis 2015 · January 1, 2015 We use social network analysis to better understand historic data on the administration of local governments. Despite advances in e-government applications, the public sector lags behind in analytics because information is locked in legacy data formats. Ca ... Cite

Overview of the 2014 NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics

Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · January 1, 2014 We describe a research activity carried out during January-April 2014, seeking to increase engagement between the natural language processing research community and social science scholars. In this activity, participants were offered a corpus of text relev ... Full text Cite

Using Web metrics to analyze digital libraries

Conference Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries · January 1, 2008 We discuss the use of web metrics at four digital libraries, the Instructional Architect, the Library of Congress, the National Science Digital Library, and WGBH Teachers' Domain. We describe practical issues involved in implementing and using web metrics ... Full text Cite

Legislative Information Websites: Designing Beyond Transparency

Conference Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications · January 1, 2007 Since the 1990s many legislatures have made their documents and activities available to the public through the Internet. While this initial phase of transparency met some needs, it is no longer sufficient simply to make legislative documents available elec ... Cite

Qualitative Approaches to Understanding and Studying Algorithms.

Conference Algorithms are increasingly common in the world. Research exists on the “math” behind algorithms (O’Neil, 2016). But less research looks at how algorithms are deployed in practice, and there is limited research on algorithmic phenomena from a qualitative p ... Cite

AI, STS, and Institutional Theory

Conference How does artificial intelligence disrupt institutions? Scholars have highlighted that AI crosses boundaries between public and private in a network that unites platforms, governments, corporations, and finance in tight configurations. The entanglement of o ... Cite