Etymologically, 'opinion' has at least one foot in the idea of being able to think independently, of owning one's thoughts, and the other in the idea of choice, of being able to have preferences, judge something one way or another, or take one of several positions on a controversial issue. Having opinions implies being cognitively autonomous, independent, but also somewhat unpredictable. Althou...

eDITORIaLS Food additives and hyperactivity Evidence supports a trial period of eliminating colourings and preservatives from the diet Whether preservatives and colourings cause or exacerbate hyperactive behaviours is an important question for many paediatricians and parents. A recent randomised placebo controlled trial in 297 children aged 3-9 years provides evidence of increased hyperactive b...

With the spread of mobile applications and online interactive platforms, number user reviews are increasing explosively becoming one most important ways for users to voice opinions. Opinion target extraction opinion word two key procedures used determine helpfulness reviews. In this paper, we implement a system extract “opinion target:opinion word” pairs based on Conditional Random Field (CRF)....

rapid growth of networks and social networks results in more access to people’s opinion. these opinions contain useful information. by analyzing these opinions, people’s preferences and their positive and negative opinions about different subjects can be identified. opinion mining is the process of analyzing people’s emotions, feelings and opinions to identify their preferences. in this article...