Response to “Randomized Vertebroplasty Trials: Bad News or Sham News?”

Good News or Bad News: Using Affect Control Theory to Analyze Readers' Reaction Towards News Articles

This paper proposes a novel approach to sentiment analysis that leverages work in sociology on symbolic interactionism. The proposed approach uses Affect Control Theory (ACT) to analyze readers’ sentiment towards factual (objective) content and towards its entities (subject and object). ACT is a theory of affective reasoning that uses empirically derived equations to predict the sentiments and ...

Phosphate binders in CKD: bad news or good news?

Hyperphosphatemia has long been considered an important contributor to the mineral and bone disorder associated with CKD (CKD-MBD). Already 50 years ago, Slatopolsky et al. showed that as GFR decreased, fractional phosphate excretion rose because of inhibition of tubular phosphate reabsorption by parathyroid hormone (PTH), thus preventing serum phosphorus to rise. In the last 10 years, fibrobla...

Good News or Bad News? Let the Market Decide

News stories about publicly traded companies are labeled positive or negative according to price changes of the company stock. It is shown that models based on lexical features can distinguish good news from bad news with accuracy of about 70%. Unfortunately, this works only when stories are labeled according to cotemporaneous price changes but does not work when they are labeled according to s...

No News is Good News (or at least Most News is Bad News): Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information

There is a considerable body of work suggesting that economic news has significant political and economic implications. Most work in political science assumes that responses to this news are symmetrical, however; indeed, this work also assumes that responses to the economy itself are symmetrical. This is most likely not true. There is, rather, reason to believe that negative economic informatio...

hiv/aids good news and bad news