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This technical report contains all the measurements in the form of graphs that we conducted in our research into decentralized recommendation, as initially published in [5]. In particular, it contains our measurements on the MovieLens 100,000 and 1,000,000 ratings datasets [11], and the Jester dataset [2].

"Second Opinions in Internal Medicine" is a short book aimed at junior doctors, general practice trainees and their trainers. It adopts a case study approach to frequent, yet taxing problems that face general practitioners and hospital Consultants. The format adopted is that of GP assessment and management, followed by a referral letter, and then Consultant assessment and reply, finishing with ...

In this paper we present an approach to summarizing positive and negative opinions in blog threads. We first run a sentiment analysis system and consequently pass its output through a standard LSA-based text summarization system. Further on, we evaluate our approach and present the results obtained, which we believe are promising in the context of multi-document text summarization. Finally, we ...

Context has been recognized as an important factor in constructing personalized recommender systems. However, most contextaware recommendation techniques mainly aim at exploiting item-level contextual information for modeling users’ preferences, while few works attempt to detect more fine-grained aspect-level contextual preferences. Therefore, in this article, we propose a contextual recommenda...

Subjectivity in natural language refers to aspects of language used to express opinions and evaluations (Banfield, 1982; Wiebe, 1994). There are numerous applications for which knowledge of subjectivity is relevant, including genre detection, information extraction, and information retrieval. This paper shows promising results for a straightforward method of identifying collocational clues of s...

The ultimate success of energy initiatives depends in large part on public acceptance. Politicians rarely pass new policies in the face of public opposition, and public policies, even when implemented, seldom succeed if citizens largely flout them. Examples include privatization and deregulation, which, while supported by many economists and policy experts, may face fierce resistance by constit...

Shared decision making is an emerging physician-patient interaction model for clinical practice [1]. Essentially, shared decision making implies that both the physician and the patient contribute to and bear responsibility for the clinical decision to be taken. It offers an alternative for the paternalis-tic model, in which it is the physician who informs the patient and proposes the decision t...