LegItBART: a summarization model for Italian legal documents

The ever-increasing volume of electronic legal documents calls for effective, language-specific summarization and headline generation techniques to make legal content more accessible and easy-to-use. In the context of Italian law existing summarization models are either extractive or focused on abstracting long-form summaries. As a result, the generated summaries have a low level of readability or are not suited to summarize common legal documents such as norms. This paper proposes LegItBART,...

Exploring innovation in public e-services

Diffusion and usage of public e-services in Europe: An assessment of country level indicators and drivers

We analyze the state of the art of indicators on e-government, e-health, e-procurement and e-participation. We survey the main methodological properties of these indicators, and highlight their heuristic potential. Further, we address empirically the issue of the explanation of the availability scores, i.e. how the supply of the various e-services in each country is affected by political, institutional and socio-economic differences, and is followed by actual usage. The econometric analysis u...

The co-evolution of ICT, skills and organization in public administrations: Evidence from new European country-level data

During the past two decades a big effort has been made in exploring the complementarities between information and communications technology (ICT) adoption, investment in human capital and organizational change, and how these affect economic performance. Such investigations, however, remain substantially circumscribed to private sectors, while the role of these factors in public sector performance has been largely disregarded.In this paper we aim at filling this gap in empirical literature by ...