Internet blogs provide forums for discussions within virtual communities, allowing readers to post comments on what they read. However, such comments may contain abuse, such as personal attacks, offensive remarks about race or religion, or commercial spam, all of which reduce the value of community discussion. Ideally, filters would promote civil discourse by removing abusive comments while pro...

Online social media systems (such as YouTube or Reddit) provide commenting features to support augmentation of social objects (e.g. video clips or news articles). Unfortunately, many comments are not useful due to the varying intentions of the authors of comments as well as the perspectives of the readers. In this paper, we present, a framework and Web-based system for adaptive faceted ranking ...

This poster is an invitation to a free discussion on the limitations of the mind in its capability to understand itself and other minds. It poses some questions, presents examples and makes suggestions, in the hope to attract some comments and feedback from the readers. It does not attempt to solidly defend any theory or hypothesis. Readers are welcome to make challenging comments. Note: Terms ...

The increasing number of aging people around the world, especially in developing countries, and its economic, social, and health consequences demonstrate the necessity of studies focusing on the elderly. The results of the studies can provide ways for solving the existing and future problems that are associated with the aging population. Although research studies on elderly are conducted in Ira...

Blog posts containing many personal experiences or perspectives toward specific subjects are useful. Blogs allow readers to interact with bloggers by placing comments on specific blog posts. The comments carry viewpoints of readers toward the targets described in the post, or supportive/non-supportive attitude toward the post. Comment extraction is challenging due to that there does not exist a...

Dear Readers, As part of a continued effort to improve the quality of our papers and the transparency of the publication process, Cosmetics will introduce in the near future the possibility for the Authors to choose an Open Peer Review process (OPR). OPR is as a process in which the names of the authors and reviewers may be known to each other, and where review reports are published alongside t...

For most of its existence, American Family Physician (AFP) came in a single format: a print journal that was delivered by mail at regular intervals. AFP continues to thrive in print, with a circulation of more than 180,000. Starting with the launch of AFP’s website, we have been continually working to improve the online and digital experience for our readers. Published content has been archived...