Spencer Phillips Hey and Aaron Kesselheim propose that informativeness-asserting scientific facts-rather than truthfulness ought to be the standard for regulating commercial speech about pharmaceuticals.

The notion of informativeness in information science will be analyzed from a theoretical and empirical point of view and related to the concepts of relevance and information quality.

Œe design and presentation of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has been subject to much research. With many contemporary aspects of the SERP now under scrutiny, work still remains in investigating more traditional SERP components, such as the result summary. Prior studies have examined a variety of di‚erent aspects of result summaries, but in this paper we investigate the inƒuence of result ...

The idea that some words carry more semantic content than others, has led to the notion of term specificity, or informativeness. Computational estimation of this quantity is important for various applications such as information retrieval. We propose a new method of computing term specificity, based on modeling the rate of learning of word meaning in Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). We analyze t...

August 2013 Elizabeth Demers Darden Graduate School of Business University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 [email protected] Clara Vega Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Washington, DC 20551 [email protected] Abstract Using automated textual analysis algorithms to quantify the content of more than 20,000 managerial press releases from 1998 to 2006, this study pre...