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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...

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Foreword to LEO Article

As part of the reorganization of the JAIS Journal in 2002 the newly formed editorial team has decided to open the pages of the JAIS journal to the recipients of the Leo awardthe most distinguished award of AIS. The LEO Award was established in 1999 by the Council of the Association for Information Systems and the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Information Systems. Named ...

Foreword to the Special Issue

We are very pleased to present the Special Issue “Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and its Applications”, an outcome of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TU1208 “Civil engineering applications of Ground Penetrating Radar”. The Special Issue comprises two parts: Part I includes eight papers on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, methodology and appl...