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 ...

Various news sites exist today where internet audience can read the most recent news and see what other people think about. Most sites do not organize comments well and do not filter irrelevant content. Due to this limitation, readers who are interested to know other people’s opinion regarding any specific topic, have to manually follow relevant comments, reading and filtering a lot of irreleva...

Dear editor; After receiving the comments from the readers, we checked the results carefully and decided to repeat all the experiments. As the first author has already left the lab, other members are still trying to repeat these experiments. Because it takes a long time to have these experiments redone, we decide to retract our paper entitled “Stable chloroplast transformation of immature scute...

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paper presents preliminary fi ndings and is being distributed to economists and other interested readers solely to stimulate discussion and elicit comments. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily refl ective of views at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors.

Editor’s note: The internet provides unprecedented opportunities to share summary data and complete datasets of original research online, in order that readers and researchers alike can review such data in detail. The implications of this ‘open data movement’ are considerable, though not entirely resolved. In this expanded Letter to the Editor, Dr. John Doyle comments on several ramifications o...

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In this paper we describe and evaluate an approach to linking readers’ comments to online news articles. For each comment that is linked based on its comment, we also determine whether the commenter agrees, disagrees or stays neutral with respect to what is stated in the article, as well as what the commenter’s sentiment towards the article is. We use similarity features to link comments to rel...