BACKGROUND Although interruption of endemic measles was achieved in the Americas in 2002, Quebec experienced an outbreak in 2011 of 776 reported cases; 80% of these individuals had not been fully vaccinated. We analyzed readers' online responses to Canadian news articles regarding the outbreak to better understand public perceptions of measles and vaccination. METHODS We searched Canadian onl...

The Internet provides a variety of ways for people to easily share, socialize, and interact with each other. One of the most popular platforms is the online blog. This causes a vast amount of new text data in the form of blog comments and opinions about news, events and products being generated everyday. However, not all comments have equal quality. Informative or high quality comments have gre...

The internet has liberalized political discussion in Nigeria, and enhanced public debates on trending social, economic, religious, issues the various platforms it harbours, such as social media, online news sites blogs among others. Online comments sections of enable readers for instance, to discuss raised from their individual points view. This development facilitates interaction producers con...

The Internet provides a variety of ways for people to easily share, socialize, and interact with each other. One of the most popular platforms is the online blog. This causes a vast amount of new text data in the form of blog comments and opinions about news, events and products being generated everyday. However, not all comments are informative. Informative or high quality comments have great ...

This document is a proposal of research intended to complete a Ph.D. in Computer Science. The overall goal of the proposed work is to demonstrate a connection between agents as limited reasoners and the use of informationally redundant utterances in problem-solving dialogues. This document describes some long range objectives and some preliminary results toward this goal. Comments from readers ...

I would like to resubmit the revised version of the following manuscript for publications in BMC Medical Information and Decision Making: Evaluation of Data Quality of interRAI Assessments in Home and Community Care (MIDM-D-17-00098). I appreciated the thoughtful comments and suggestions put forward by the reviewers and have attempted to address each one. Specific reviewer comments are in bold ...

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In this paper, we address the issue of automatic prediction of readers’ mood from newspaper articles and comments. As online newspapers are becoming more and more similar to social media platforms, users can provide affective feedback, such as mood and emotion. We have exploited the self-reported annotation of mood categories obtained from the metadata of the Italian online newspaper corriere.i...

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DNAReplication (at http://www.dnareplication.net) has been set up as a freely available single resource to facilitate access to information on eukaryotic DNA replication. This database summarizes organism-sorted data on replication proteins in the categories of nomenclature, biochemical properties, motifs, interactions, modifications, structure, cell localization and expression, and general com...