We present an approach to the new task of opinion holder and target extraction on opinion compounds. Opinion compounds (e.g. user rating or victim support) are noun compounds whose head is an opinion noun. We do not only examine features known to be effective for noun compound analysis, such as paraphrases and semantic classes of heads and modifiers, but also propose novel features tailored to ...

This paper discusses a known-plaintext attack on a redundancy reducing cipher method which is proposed by Wayner. We also propose an extension of Wayner’s redundancy reducing cipher scheme so that the security will be improved greatly.

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BACKGROUND Evidence-based practice (EBP) is increasing in health care services. This means that respiratory therapists (RTs) should be effective consumers, users and producers of scientific research pertaining to respiratory therapy technology and respiratory physiology. However, little is known about RT opinions and attitudes toward research. Survey instruments to measure them are also uncommo...

We present and evaluate the first method known to us that can create rich nonextract-based opinion summaries from general text (e.g. newspaper articles). We first describe two possible representations for opinion summaries and then present our system OASIS, which identifies, and optionally aggregates, fine-grained opinions from the same source on the same topic. We propose new evaluation measur...

bottleneck in state courts and consequence resulting form it and the advantages which the disputes settlement has outside the court for governments and especially the parties to dispute led to increasing promotion of arbitration and use of new method of dispute settlement which are described as “alternative dispute resolution” (adr) are described. meanwhile, many of this method settle the dispu...