Laïcité, islam et espace public

Recommandation et analyse de sentiments dans un espace latent textuel

Recommender systems were developed to cherry-pick interesting content in an always growing environment to help users discover new products or information that they might like. Traditional collaborative filtering methods mainly focus on the ratings to establish user profiles, ignoring the joint review text. Our work does the opposite. We use the written comments as the primary source of informat...

Public health Influence of Islam on smoking among Muslims

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Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks

The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after the attacks. Most of the tweets were condemning the attacks and showing support to Parisians. One of the trending debates related to the attacks concerned possible association between terrorism and Islam and Muslims ...

The Islam in Islamic art history: secularism and public discourse

Muslim art can also have a special significance for the Muslim world of today. Since this is its one cultural achievement widely accepted and admired by the West, a rededication to it can compensate the East to a certain degree for its scientific and technological retardation, something which neither the oil fields nor strategic location can achieve. Be that as it may, there has been and still ...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.