This paper describes the systems we submitted to the task 3 (Community Question Answering) in SemEval 2017 which contains three subtasks on english corpora, i.e., subtask A: Question-Comment Similarity, subtask B: Question-Question Similarity, and subtask C: Question-External Comment Similarity. For subtask A, we combined two different methods to represent question-comment pair, i.e., supervise...

It has been suggested that personality factors are related to an individuals’ use of social networking sites (SNSs). The present research explores the relationships between the Big Five Personality factors, narcissism, self-esteem, and sensation seeking and individuals’ use of specific features of SNS. Self-reports were collected from 265 SNS users from a university in China. Regression analyse...

Social media has become ubiquitous and important for content sharing. A typical example of how users contribute content to a social media platform is through comment threads in online articles. Unfortunately, there is an increasing prevalence of malicious activity in these threads by spammers through comment messages. The existing approaches tackling comment spam are comment-level in that they ...

Blog posts containing many personal experiences or perspectives toward specific subjects are useful. Blogs allow readers to interact with bloggers by placing comments on specific blog posts. The comments carry viewpoints of readers toward the targets described in the post, or supportive/non-supportive attitude toward the post. Comment extraction is challenging due to that there does not exist a...

Gates has contributed over an extended period of time to efforts to advance the use of administrative records for statistical purposes, especially at the U.S. Census Bureau, and thus it is a pleasure to be able to comment on this paper which reflects his experiences and his thinking on the topic. He focuses largely on the policy aspects of expanding the use of administrative records using ideas...

Editor—We thank Dr Davies for his comment. All currently available spinal needles have Luer pattern connectors, and what he is recommending is the use of syringes and needles with Luer-lock connectors. We can appreciate that their use might reduce the risk of anterior or posterior displacement, but we note that he still invokes the qualification ‘hopefully’, so the user must still be aware of t...