The present-day burgeoning of new medical information, interventions, and procedures, as well as the emphasis on quality improvement, has fostered a greater need for specialization in medicine. More residents than ever before are pursuing a fellowship, and neurology residents are no exception. Approximately 86% of neurology residents matriculate into a fellowship, up nearly 10% from a decade ag...

The motivation behind this work was to analyze the attitude of the journalist through his 5 serial articles, concerning the local referendum about the construction of nuclear power station, which had written after having interviewed in 4 areas. The articles were composed by his description and the opinion of interviewers: supporters, objectors and others. Employing a mathematical method, the an...

Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print-scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse-electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. Using a database of 34 million articles, ...

News Comments on the web express readers’ attitudes or opinions about an event or object in the corresponding news article. And opinion target extraction from news comments is very important for many useful Web applications. However, many sentences in the comments are irregular and informal, and sometimes the opinion targets are implicit. Thus the task is very challenging and it has not been in...

In NTCIR-7 MOAT, we participated in four sub-tasks (opinion & holder detection, relevance judg-ment, and polarity classification) at two languagesides: Japanese and English. In this paper, we fo-cused on the feature selection and polarity classifi-cation methodology in both languages. To detectopinion and classify the polarity, the features wereselected based on a st...

The global scope of pathogen research—a dynamic field that spans basic science, public health, epidemiology, vaccines, infectious diseases, genetics, and population dynamics—ensures that a great diversity of opinions and perspectives exist within its community of scientists. The verbal expression of such points of view, shared expertise, and opinion for its own sake may be readily witnessed at ...

The work presented in this paper attempts to evaluate and quantify the use of discourse relations in the context of blog summarization and compare their use to more traditional and factual texts. Specifically, we measured the usefulness of 6 discourse relations namely comparison, contingency, illustration, attribution, topic-opinion, and attributive for the task of text summarization from blogs...

While much work has recently focused on the analysis of social media in order to get a feel for what people think about current topics of interest, there are, however, still many challenges to be faced. Text mining systems originally designed for more regular kinds of texts such as news articles may need to be adapted to deal with facebook posts, tweets etc. In this paper, we discuss a variety ...