This article investigates how consistent different newspapers are in their choice of words when writing about the same news events. News articles on the same news events were taken from three Finnish newspapers and compared in regard to their central concepts and words representing the concepts in the news texts. Consistency figures were calculated for each set of three articles (the total numb...

PURPOSE A review of the literature shows a difference of opinion regarding whether open or closed reduction of condylar fractures produces the best results. It would be beneficial, therefore, to critically analyze past studies that have directly compared the 2 methods in an attempt to answer this question. MATERIALS AND METHODS A Medline search for articles using the key words "mandibular con...

Recently there has been increasing interest in constructing general-purpose political opinion classifiers for applications in eRulemaking. This problem is generally modeled as a sentiment classification task in a new domain. However, the classification accuracy is not as good as that in other domains such as customer reviews. In this paper, we report the results of a series of experiments desig...

There are numerous applications in which we would like to assess what opinions are being expressed in text documents. Forr example, Martha Stewart’s company may have wished to assess the degree of harshness of news articles about her in the recent past. Likewise, a World Bank official may wish to assess the degree of criticism of a proposed dam in Bangladesh. The ability to gauge opinion on a g...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based practice (EBP) is increasing in health care services. This means that respiratory therapists (RTs) should be effective consumers, users and producers of scientific research pertaining to respiratory therapy technology and respiratory physiology. However, little is known about RT opinions and attitudes toward research. Survey instruments to measure them are also uncommo...

OBJECTIVES To determine the degree of consensus regarding the probabilities of outcomes associated with IP/IV and IV chemotherapy. METHODS A survey was administered to an expert panel using the Delphi method. Ten ovarian cancer experts were asked to estimate outcomes for patients receiving IP/IV or IV chemotherapy. The clinical estimates were: 1) probability of completing six cycles of chemot...

Opinion mining is a subdiscipline within Information Retrieval (IR) and Computational Linguistics. It refers to the computational techniques for extracting, classifying, understanding, and assessing the opinions expressed in various online sources like news articles, social media comments, and other user-generated content. It is also known by many other terms like opinion nding, opinion detecti...

Background Tablet splitting can provide dose flexibility and cost savings; however, pharmaceutical representatives typically discourage the practice. Aim To identify summarise all published concerns related to tablet present experimental evidence that investigates those concerns. Design & setting Systematic review qualitative synthesis of tablet-splitting evidence...

Methods: A systematic review of the literature using the MEDLINE database (search dates 1/1/83-7/22/09) was conducted to identify peerreviewed publications relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of IC/BPS. Insufficient evidence was retrieved regarding diagnosis; this portion of the guideline, therefore, is based on Clinical Principles and Expert Opinion. The review yielded an evidence base of ...