Blog Consumption and International Relations

Exploiting Rhetorical Relations in Blog Summarization

Exploiting Rhetorical Relations in Blog Summarization Shamima Mithun, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2012 With the rapid growth of the Social Web, a large amount of informal opinionated texts are available on numerous topics. Natural language tools for automatically analyzing these opinions become necessary to help individuals, organizations, and governments in making timely decisions. A query-bas...

Culture and International Relations : The Culture of International Relations

The Concept of Power in International Relations

The terms of Power, influence and authority could be heard in political world vastly, but using these terms is not leaving only to this realm. Despite its visual simplicity, generally there is not similar and equal perception about term of Power among people. Understanding about by politicians differs from lawyer perception about this term.  What people takes about Power, totally differ from wh...

International Law, International Relations and Compliance

Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decade the long-standing divide between those who believed that international rules per se shaped state behavior and those who saw such rules as epiphenomena1 or insignificant has given way to a mor...

Measuring the Effect of Discourse Relations on Blog Summarization

The work presented in this paper attempts to evaluate and quantify the use of discourse relations in the context of blog summarization and compare their use to more traditional and factual texts. Specifically, we measured the usefulness of 6 discourse relations namely comparison, contingency, illustration, attribution, topic-opinion, and attributive for the task of text summarization from blogs...