Most recent studies on emotion analysis and detection focus on how writers express their emotions through textual information. In this paper, we model emotion generation on the Plurk microblogging platform from both writer and reader perspectives. Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based classifiers are used for emotion prediction. To better model emotion generation on such a social network, three ty...

The anthropological study of nomadism should be approached via cultural ecology and by the generative method. A preliminary generative model is presented, consisting of a series of seven rules. The first five are derived from the literature and are concerned with group formation. The last two are proposed by the writer with a view to making the articulation between group formation, social ecolo...

Motivated by work predicting coarsegrained author categories in social media, such as gender or political preference, we explore whether Twitter contains information to support the prediction of finegrained categories, or social roles. We find that the simple self-identification pattern “I am a ” supports significantly richer classification than previously explored, successfully retrieving a va...

according to the third-development program in 1379, government was obliged to design a suitable social security polity and submit it to the parliament for final approval. during recent weeks and after nearly a two-year delay, a bill was edited by government and sent to the islamic parliament. this long - term delay indicates the serious differences in the field of law - making and necessary fra...