Trauma and recovery are the two ends of process that Toni Morrison’s novels centred around. Characters carry either transgenerational traumas or they experience them in early childhood. Once traumatised, much more likely to receive several layers wounds future. This essay explores different types sources trauma, as well ways recovery, five novels: The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Home, A Mercy God Help...

Epidemiological methodology is examined relative to the following: a) use of proper controls; b) the large magnitude of variation in published epidemiological studies on occurrence of temporomandibular disorders (TMD); c) its suitability for the study of TMD as stress disorders; d) the fact that TMD are a group of diseases each with different etiologies and symptomologies (epidemiological studi...

Subjectivity in natural language refers to aspects of language used to express opinions and evaluations (Banfield, 1982; Wiebe, 1994). There are numerous applications for which knowledge of subjectivity is relevant, including genre detection, information extraction, and information retrieval. This paper shows promising results for a straightforward method of identifying collocational clues of s...

In this paper I address the question of whether the probabilities that appear in models of stochastic gene expression are objective or subjective. I argue that while our best models of the phenomena in question are stochastic models, this fact should not lead us to automatically assume that the processes are inherently stochastic. After distinguishing between models and reality, I give a brief ...

This paper introduces a method for creating a subjectivity lexicon for languages with scarce resources. The method is able to build a subjectivity lexicon by using a small seed set of subjective words, an online dictionary, and a small raw corpus, coupled with a bootstrapping process that ranks new candidate words based on a similarity measure. Experiments performed with a rule-based sentence l...

This paper presents a lexicon model for subjectivity description of Dutch verbs that offers a framework for the development of sentiment analysis and opinion mining applications based on a deep syntactic-semantic approach. The model aims to describe the detailed subjectivity relations that exist between the participants of the verbs, expressing multiple attitudes for each verb sense. Validation...

Subjectivity and sentiment analysis focuses on the automatic identification of private states, such as opinions, emotions, sentiments, evaluations, beliefs, and speculations in natural language. While subjectivity classification labels text as either subjective or objective, sentiment classification adds an additional level of granularity, by further classifying subjective text as either positi...