Editorial: Opinion Pieces

Opinion Extraction based on Syntactic Pieces

This paper addresses a task of opinion extraction from given documents and its positive/negative classification. We propose a sentence classification method using a notion of syntactic piece. Syntactic piece is a minimum unit of structure, and is used as an alternative processing unit of n-gram and whole tree structure. We compute its semantic orientation, and classify opinion sentences into po...

Commentary on opinion pieces re Australian human papillomavirus vaccine policy.

With respect to vaccination programs against human papillomavirus (HPV), Australia is unique in several respects. First, the scientific breakthrough of making virus-like particles (VLPs), the technology underpinning all current HPV vaccines, was made in Australia by Fraser and Zhou. Second, although comparable bodies to review the cost-effectiveness of drugs exist in other countries, the Pharma...

The Opinion Editorial: teaching physiology outside the box.

Improving the public understanding of science is an important challenge for the future professional scientists who are our current undergraduates. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that explores the role of mass media as community gatekeepers of new scientific findings. This model frames the benefits for undergraduate science students to learn about media genres so that they can lear...

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A common notion of vision, consistent with this excerpt from the first paragraph of David Marr’s seminal book [1], is gained by considering the predicament of a person with a searchlight placed in a pitch-dark room full of unfamiliar furniture. One would hope that, by swinging the beam around, the observer will be able to recognize the objects present in the room (a cat here, an aquarium there,...

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