Introduction. This paper investigates the strategies that people employ to solicit and provide informational and emotional support in the blogosphere. Method. A sample of eight Finnish blogs on dietary issues was selected for the study. The data contain 489 postings and 1,117 comments submitted to the discussion areas in 2009. Descriptive statistics was used to calculate the percentage distribu...

Bloggers devote significant time not only producing content for others to read, watch or listen to, but also paying attention to and engaging in interactions with other bloggers. We hope to throw light not only on the factors that gain bloggers significant readership and lively interactions with their audience, but also on the rules that govern their relations with others. We relate bloggers’ a...

Salience is an important characteristic of information influencing users’ cognitive and emotional states. For example, salient parts of a document are those that readers will find moving or provoking. This article analyzes the main characteristics of salience and the different meanings of the concept in information retrieval and linguistics. It also presents a generic approach for identifying l...

On-line journalistic sites publish several news and stories every day. Readers of these sites may comment a story, and, as a consequence, a single story might receive thousands of comments. The quality of these comments may vary a lot, from spams and trolls to truly useful information. Separating good from bad comments is an important task, and is the primary goal of comment moderation. Moderat...

The era of big data has produced a large amount text data. Due to the different sources and complexity generation process, heterogeneous structure. Combining several latest machine learning methods with hierarchical technology, algorithm for heterostructure can improve accuracy classification. Empirical analysis shows that our significant effect on improving classification accuracy. Based groun...

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Newspaper comment sections allow readers to voice their opinion on a wide range of topics, provide feedback for journalists and editors may enable public debate. Comment have been criticized as medium toxic comments. Such behavior in has attributed the effect anonymity. Several studies found relationship between anonymity comments, based laboratory conditions or comparison comments from differe...

Each year, AAAI’s National Conference on Artificial Intelligence honors a handful of papers that exemplify high standards in exposition and pedagogy. Papers are nominated for the Best Written Paper Award by members of the program committee during the NCAI review process. These nominations are then reviewed once again by a smaller subset of the program committee to select a winning paper and hon...

English as Foreign Language (EFL) students face additional difficulties for academic writing largely due to their level of language competency. An appropriate structural process of writing can help students develop their academic writing skills. This study explored the use of the e-readers to facilitate EFL students' process-based academic writing. The experiment was conducted in the graduate l...