Review mining and summarization has been a hot topic for the past decade. A lot of effort has been devoted to aspect detection and sentiment analysis under the assumption that every review has the same utility for related tasks. However, reviews are not equally helpful as indicated by user-provided helpfulness assessment associated with the reviews. In this thesis, we propose a novel review sum...

As the number of weblog users increase, RSS readers, which collect update information delivered as RSS feeds from such web sites, become popular to be used. Most of the commonly used RSS readers are in a tasteless style. In contrast, we aim to make a new type of RSS readers with the concepts of ‘pleasure’ and ‘comfort’ in mind. This paper describes two types of visual RSS readers with a high re...

Usenet is a decentralized discussion community predating blogs by decades. Just as there are a wide range of political blogs, many Usenet sub-communities focus on politics. However, we find these two communities are very different in terms of source content. In this work we compare linking patterns of the political Usenet with a well-known political blog and news aggregator, Memeorandum, with r...

Depth map super-resolution (DSR) has been a fundamental task for 3D computer vision. While arbitrary scale DSR is more realistic setting in this scenario, previous approaches predominantly suffer from the issue of inefficient real-numbered upsampling. To explicitly address issue, we propose novel continuous depth representation DSR. The heart our proposed Geometric Spatial Aggregator (GSA), whi...

Article history: Received 12 May 2010 Received in revised form 6 March 2011 Accepted 26 May 2011 Available online 7 June 2011

Peer review is regarded as one of the mainstays of academic publishing. It is conceivably the most trusted method (Nicholas et al., 2015) to weed out invalid and suspicious research and improve the quality of published research. Therefore, journals across disciplines have adopted peer review as a core part of the publishing process to uphold academic standards of ethics, validity, and reliabili...

*Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Rajarajeshwari Dental College& Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India **Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajarajeshwari Dental College & Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ***Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Rajarajeshwari Dental College& Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India †Senior Lecturer...

The purpose of this article is to review léderal policy on deposit interest rate ceilings over the 53 year’s since they first were imposed. The article describes the objectives of Congress in establishing ceiling rates on deposits, examines their effects on the I’mnancial system and economic activity, and, finally, assesses the effect that phasing them out has had ~n tile coniposition of deposi...