Highly politicised opinions

Identification And Resistance Stream 1: Identity: Constructed, Consumed and Politicised

Opinosis: A Graph Based Approach to Abstractive Summarization of Highly Redundant Opinions

We present a novel graph-based summarization framework (Opinosis) that generates concise abstractive summaries of highly redundant opinions. Evaluation results on summarizing user reviews show that Opinosis summaries have better agreement with human summaries compared to the baseline extractive method. The summaries are readable, reasonably well-formed and are informative enough to convey the m...

Computational Opinions

Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with “objective” knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there has been almost no research on the formal modelling of opinions, i.e., communicatively asserted ostensible beliefs. This is highly surprising, since opinions are in fact the only publicly visible kind of knowledge in open systems...

Diverging Opinions

People often see the same evidence but draw opposite conclusions, becoming increasingly polarized over time. Prior discussions of this puzzle have focused on the failure of Bayesian reasoning or on the possibility of non-common priors. By contrast, we offer a model of diverging opinions in a Bayesian environment with common priors. In our model, people hold different private information and dis...

Margaret McCartney: Dementiagate--how politicised pay diverts GPs from working for patients.

I’m wondering if this is Dementiagate—a defining moment when the UK public discovers the ugly truth about how most GPs are paid. The news from NHS England, that GPs were to receive £55 (€70; $90) for each new diagnosis of dementia, has been met with widespread condemnation and disgust. NHS England wants GPs to identify potential dementia patients through screening in those supposedly at risk, i...