III: Small: Organizational Responsiveness to Open Outside Input: A Modeling Approach based on Statistical Text and Network Analysis

III：小：组织对开放外部输入的响应：基于统计文本和网络分析的建模方法

• 批准号: 1320219
• 负责人: Hanna Wallach
• 金额: $ 47.96万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1320219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; Small; Organizational; Responsiveness; Open

This project focuses on the development of new analytical tools for modeling the relationships between intra-organizational communication networks and open, external sources of text data. The massive quantities of textual communications generated within organizations constitute a largely untapped source for insightful, timely organizational analytics. The tools under development for this project are designed to jointly analyze the content of communications and the socio-organizational structure comprised by communication ties, thereby allowing researchers and practitioners to identify and analyze the ways in which government officials' extra-governmental communications are related to intra-governmental communications and operations. In producing these tools, this project builds upon extant textual and network analysis methods by focusing on novel probabilistic methods for identifying topics that cut across network domains (e.g., informal email communications, official meeting minutes, and final policy records) and representing the complex flow of topics through government decision and policy-making processes. These methods, along with data collected during the course of this project, enhance organizations' ability to connect streams of external input to their internal operations. In conjunction with a new, publicly available database of local government communication records, this project showcases and builds upon the success of recent efforts, encompassing the gov2.0 movement, to improve government responsiveness through the solicitation of open outside input.

该项目着重于开发新的分析工具，用于建模组织内通信网络与开放的，外部文本数据的关系之间的关系。组织中生成的大量文本通信构成了启发性，及时的组织分析的很大程度上尚未开发的来源。该项目正在开发的工具旨在共同分析沟通关系组成的沟通内容以及社会组织结构的内容，从而使研究人员和从业人员能够识别和分析政府官员的政府外部政府跨政府沟通的方式政府内通信和操作。在生产这些工具时，该项目通过专注于识别跨越网络域的主题（例如，非正式的电子邮件通信，正式的会议记录和最终政策记录）的新型概率方法来建立基于现存的文本和网络分析方法，并代表复杂的流程通过政府决策和决策过程的主题。这些方法以及在本项目过程中收集的数据增强了组织将外部输入流连接到其内部操作的能力。结合一个新的公开通信记录数据库，该项目展示并建立在最近的努力成功的基础上，涵盖了政府运动，以通过征求开放的外部投入来提高政府的响应能力。