We present results of empirical studies on positive speech on Twitter. By positive speech we understand speech that works for the betterment of a given situation, in this case relations between different communities in a conflict-prone country. We worked with four Twitter data sets. Through semimanual opinion mining, we found that positive speech accounted for < 1% of the data . In fully automa...

Pulmonary rehabilitation plays important role in patients with lung diseases, and it is applied acute, subacute, chronic stages of the disease. Bibliometrics, which refers to application quantitative statistical methods analyze scientific publications on a specific topic, authors, journals, citation scores, countries. Web Science (WOS) search engine selected keywords were those related “pulmona...

Are speakers equipped with preferences concerning grammatical structures that are absent in their language? We examine this question by investigating the sensitivity of English speakers to the sonority of onset clusters. Linguistic research suggests that certain onset clusters are universally preferred (e.g., bd>lb). We demonstrate that such preferences modulate the perception of unattested ons...