1. In the current e-world, any organization’s massive operations are managed by various types
of information systems that help them to achieve their goals of servicing their clients. This can
be done by the growth of the modern organization. Discuss some of the essential features of
modern organization.
2. List and Explain FOUR technological trends that raise ethical concerns
3. Take an example of Airline reservation system / Core Banking System and criticize the
characteristics of good MIS therein.
4. Discuss application of MIS in UAE Retail Sector.
5. Evaluate in general terms, the challenges facing social networking websites (e.g., Twitter,
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, TikTok etc.) and identify ways
companies can prepare to face these issues.
6. Read the case study given below and answer the questions at the end of the case.
General Electric’s SCISOR analyzes financial news
General Electric’s Research and Development Center has developed a natural language system
called SCISOR (System for Conceptual Information Summarization, Organization, and
Retrieval) that performs text analysis and question-answering in a limited, predefined subject
1area (called a constrained domain). One application of this system deals with analyzing
financial news. For example, SCISOR automatically selects and analyzes stories about
corporate mergers and acquisitions from the online financial service of Dow Jones. Ii is able to
process news in less than 10 seconds per story. First, it determines whether the story is about a
corporate merger or acquisition. Then, it selects information such as the target, suitor, and price
per share. The system allows the user to browse and ask questions such as, “What price was
offered for Polaroid?” or “How much was Bruck Plastics sold for?”
The system’s effectiveness was demonstrated in testing, when it proved to be 100 percent
accurate in identifying all 31 mergers and acquisitions stories that were included in a universe
of 731 financial news releases from the newswire service.
A similar application is a Web-based personalized news system that was developed in
Singapore to track business news available in English, Chinese, and Malay, summarize it, and
extract desired personalized news in any of these languages.
Questions:
(a) What are the benefits of analyzing financial news via a machine?
(b) What other applications might be developed with this type of system?
(c) How could such a system be combined with an Internet news dissemination portal such as
money.cnn.com?
(d) Discuss the reliability factor of such a system.
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