problem of evil is something which is considered against existence of god or his attributes like being omnipotent and absolutely good. philosophers and theologians have tried to solve this problem by different ways. the solution which is accepted by muslim philosophers is the nothingness of evils. according to this opinion evils are not except nothing of essence or perfections of essence. in th...

Opinions are rarely binary; they can be held with different degrees of conviction, and this expanded attitude spectrum can affect the influence one opinion has on others. Our goal is to understand how different aspects of influence lead to recognizable spatio-temporal patterns of opinions and their strengths. To do this, we introduce a stochastic spatial agent-based model of opinion dynamics th...

Today, many sources of unstructured information such as social networks and blogs are more or less freely available on the web, their volume is constantly growing, which constitutes a free gold mine for collecting public opinion. Opinion plays crucial role because it can influence decision-making process. Sentiment opinion analysis discipline that be used to meet needs, provide feedback new pro...

The opinion analysis task is a pilot study task in NTCIR-6. It contains the challenges of opinion sentence extraction, opinion polarity judgment, opinion holder extraction and relevance sentence extraction. The three former are new tasks, and the latter is proven to be tough in TREC. In this paper, we introduce our system for analyzing opinionated information. Several formulae are proposed to d...

A fundamental issue in opinion mining is to search a corpus for opinion units, each of which typically comprises the evaluation by an author for a target object from an aspect, such as “This hotel is in a good location”. However, few attempts have been made to address cases where the validity of an evaluation is restricted on a condition in the source text, such as “for traveling with small kid...