2a) Summary. The proposed project aims to facilitate tracking news events and determining their impact on the general public, both by professionals (media analysts, news watchers, scientists) and by the general public itself. We want to achieve this by developing algorithms that allow us to track news and measure impact largely automatically. In the scenario that we envisage, news data will be ...

The Internet provides a variety of ways for people to easily share, socialize, and interact with each other. One of the most popular platforms is the online blog. This causes a vast amount of new text data in the form of blog comments and opinions about news, events and products being generated everyday. However, not all comments have equal quality. Informative or high quality comments have gre...

The Internet provides a variety of ways for people to easily share, socialize, and interact with each other. One of the most popular platforms is the online blog. This causes a vast amount of new text data in the form of blog comments and opinions about news, events and products being generated everyday. However, not all comments are informative. Informative or high quality comments have great ...

How can we persuade ophthalmologists and parents that it is important to refer children for low vision services? • During the eye examination, show parents what their child can currently see, and what they are likely to be able to see after refraction and low vision support. For example, reading a poster on the wall or text in a school book • Include simulation of low vision (for example, looki...

The automatic classification of opinions about aspects of political candidates, from public web data, is a complex Opinion Mining problem. This paper describes a case study of aspect-based opinion mining in the context of comments that newspaper readers express about political news. Our challenge is to identify and summarize opinions on aspects of election candidates, using an ill-structured so...