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Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding information cascading phenomenon on popular social networks such as Face book, Twitter and Plurk. The numerous diffusion events indicate huge governmental and commercial potential. People have proposed several diffusion and cascading models based on certain assumption, but until now we do not know which one is better in predicting information...
This work presents an unsupervised snippet-based sentiment classification method for Chinese unknown sentiment phrases, which is also applicable to other languages theoretically. Unlike existing Semantic Orientation (SO) methods, our proposed method does not require any Reference Word Pairs (RWPs) for predicting the sentiments of phrases. The results of preliminary experiments show that our proposed...
Accelerated growth of the Internet has enabled users worldwide to share their feelings and experiences. User-generated content (UGC) websites are the most abundant sources of user reviews. Accurately identifying sentiment phrases is essential to understand the expressed opinions in user reviews. To achieve this, part-of-speech (POS) patterns of phrases are useful. However, previous studies for Chinese...
Consumer reviews are dominating consumer purchase decisions, and restaurant (cuisine) reviews are one of the most popular genres of consumer reviews. In contrast to traditional named entity recognition (NER) targets, cuisine names are promising targets that were neglected in previous studies. This study proposes a novel cuisine name extraction algorithm, which can extract cuisine names from restaurant...
On-the-go consumers require dynamic information, particularly "word of mouth, " to make better purchase decisions. A popular genre of mobile map services is travel/cuisine, which is a popular topic for bloggers as well. This study attempts to generate local cuisine hotspot maps through blog content mining. The main obstacle in doing this involves recognizing and extracting restaurants and...
Democratic in nature, the Blogosphere allows individuals to accumulate a tremendous amount of personal knowledge, share experiences, and express opinions. Based on blog contents and social-referral data, blog semantic analysis can identify individual expertise and an appropriate social network, thus obtaining word-of-mouth reviews of certain products or services. Effectively utilizing this opinion...
The complications of diabetes are preventable by exact glycemic control, which can be provided by an accurate self-monitoring blood glucose system to promote self-care in the management of diabetes.We evaluated the accuracy and reliability of the EasyPlus mini R2N blood glucose self-monitoring system and compare glucose measurements between the fingertip, thenar, hypothenar and forearm. Over a 1-month...
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