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This paper is motivated to utilize results from opinion mining to facilitate social network analysis. We introduce the concept of opinion networks and propose a PageRank-like algorithm, named OpinionRank, to rank the nodes in an opinion network. This proposed approach has been applied to real-world datasets and initial experiments indicate that the sentiment information is helpful for finding leaders...