Nowadays exists a growing interest in the automatic extraction of subjective expressions (opinions, emotions and feelings) in texts. To identify the semantic orientation of a text, it is assumed that the occurrence of expressions that belong to some emotional category can be regarded as evidence that there is an affective state. Based on this assumption, we create an affective lexicon, consisti...

This paper presents case studies of the calculation of appraisals, the linguistic construal of emotions and attitudinal positions, in natural language design text. Using two data sets, one a standard set of movie review text and one a set of a natural language design text, we compare the performance of support vector machines for the classification of design documents by overall semantic orient...

Appeared in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP’97), pp. 312–317, 1997. In this paper, Analysis with Word Class Functions (WCFA) is presented as a paradigm for syntactic-semantic analysis of natural language. The main characteristics of this approach are: word-orientation, the central role of word class functions, two phases o...

There has been a wide body of design research about the categorisation of design text by the content or role of the text. However, recent research on information use in design has suggested the need to consider the semantic orientation toward the subject matter because the orientation might signal design rationale and other critical meta-functions. This paper presents a computational implementa...

The rise of blogs, forums, social networks and review websites in recent years has provided very accessible and convenient platforms for people to express thoughts, views or attitudes about topics of interest. In order to collect and analyse opinionated content on the Internet, various sentiment detection techniques have been developed based on an integration of part-of-speech tagging, negation...

As protection of web applications are getting more and more important every day, CAPTCHAs are facing booming attention both by users and designers. Nowadays, it is well accepted that using visual concepts enhance security and usability of CAPTCHAs. There exist few major different ideas for designing image CAPTCHAs. Some methods apply a set of modifications such as rotations to the original imag...

Information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. However, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. In this ...

the aim of this study was to design the strategic orientations model of market, brand and entrepreneurship in the food industry in iran.  the organizational decisions are not formed  in a vacuum but in the economic and cultural environmental context of each country, they are much influenced by many different factors. this study is of applied type and was conducted in two stages. first after an ...

today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

Previous research has shown that object’s orientation facilitates responses of the hand that is compatible with the orientation. We explored how this object-orientation effect couples with reach planning and control. Experiment 1 used left-right orientated cylinders as stimuli. The orientation of these cylinders was observed to lead to more accurate responses of the orientation compatible hand....