We study a two states opinion formation model driven by PageRank node influence and report an extensive numerical study on how PageRank affects collective opinion formations in large-scale empirical directed networks. In our model the opinion of a node can be updated by the sum of its neighbor nodes’ opinions weighted by the node influence of the neighbor nodes at each step. We consider PageRan...

The expression of doubt and certainty is crucial in academic writing where the authors have to distinguish opinion from fact and evaluate their assertions in acceptable and persuasive ways. Hedges and boosters are two strategies used for this purpose. Despite their importance in academic writing, we know little about how they are used in different disciplines and genres and how foreign language...

This study is based on network public opinion of the case "Nankai Buick Affair". The daily number of posts as the variable, quantitative research is carried out on the law of change in network public opinion, which provides the scientific basis for managers to choose the best time to intervene. This article first begins from the three aspects: a number of changes in daily posts over time, the c...

Abstract This chapter assesses the politicisation of EU in six European countries, by looking at media coverage 29 legislative elections held between 2002 and 2017. Using a combination automated manual methods content analysis, this goes beyond existing studies to examine how Eurozone crises impacted traditional not only terms magnitude but also framing content. unique dataset 165,341 news item...

Indiana University‟s WIDIT Lab 1 participated in the Blog track‟s opinion task and the polarity subtask, where we combined multiple opinion detection methods to leverage a variety of complementary evidences rather than trying to optimize the utilization of a single source of evidence. To address the weakness of our past topical retrieval strategy, which generated mediocre baseline results with ...

BACKGROUND Rotaviruses remain the major cause of childhood diarrheal disease worldwide and of diarrheal deaths of infants and children in developing countries. The huge burden of childhood rotavirus-related diarrhea in the world continues to drive the remarkable pace of vaccine development. DATA SOURCES Research articles were searched using terms "rotavirus" and "rotavirus vaccine" in MEDLINE...