We determine the subjectivity of word senses. To avoid costly annotation, we evaluate how useful existing resources established in opinion mining are for this task. We show that results achieved with existing resources that are not tailored towards word sense subjectivity classification can rival results achieved with supervision on a manually annotated training set. However, results with diffe...

Social tagging systems allow users to easily create, organize and share collections of resources (e.g. Web pages, research papers, photos, etc.) in a collaborative fashion. The rise in popularity of these systems in recent years go along with an rapid increase in the amount of data contained in their underlying folksonomies, thereby hindering the user task of discovering interesting resources. ...

In order to organise and manage geospatial and georeferenced information on the web making them convenient for searching and browsing, a digital portal known as G-Portal has been designed and implemented. Compared to other digital libraries, G-Portal is unique for several of its features. It maintains metadata resources in XML with flexible resource schemas. Logical groupings of metadata resour...

empirical evidence seems to indicate that economic growth has varied inversely with natural resource abundance across countries, in which high natural resources dependent economies experience the low economic growth. this paper first reviews the literature of resources curse and shows that the most important challenges of economic development of iran are those mechanisms that change the blessin...

abstract among different water usage in iran, agricultural sector with 94 percent is the largest water user. considering the share of agriculture in water usage, farmers are the main factor in water resources management. therefore, optimal utilization of irrigation and drainage networks would depend on farmers’ effective role. due to the limited water resources in different country regions, inc...

OBJECTIVE To explore knowledge and use of drug information resources by pharmacists and identify patterns influenced by gender and age-group classification. METHODS A survey questionnaire was mailed nationwide to 1,000 practitioners working in community (n = 500) and hospital (n = 500) settings who answer drug information questions as part of their expected job responsibilities. Responses per...

English proficiency is increasingly vital in the modern globalized and competitive world, especially for jobs that need cross-cultural communication. Using online educational tools wisely leads to improved proficiency. Digital learning are constantly being owing emergence of new technologies. An essential problem academic circles categorizing assisting investigating different forms digital reso...