The problem of fake news has gained a lot of attention as it is claimed to have had a significant impact on 2016 US Presidential Elections. Fake news is not a new problem and its spread in social networks is well-studied. Often an underlying assumption in fake news discussion is that it is written to look like real news, fooling the reader who does not check for reliability of the sources or th...

Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a ‘wordpair’. Three wordpair sets, manual wordpairs extraction (ME), manual wordpairs addition (MA), and a...

in this paper various arch models and relevant news impact curves including a partially nonparametric (pnp) one are compared and estimated with daily iran stock return data. diagnostic tests imply the asymmetry of the volatility response to news. the egarch model, which passes all the tests and appears relatively matching with the asymmetry in the data, seems to be the most adequate characteriz...

news has played a vital role in peoples’ and governments’ decision making. as such, the source and reliability of the news are of equal or even more significance than the news itself and that makes reporting the news a challenging and critical profession. accordingly, investigating how news is reported is essential and further it would be illuminating to see how different news reporting organiz...

Background: In spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among Iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. As a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in Iran is critical. Accordingly, in this study Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) was adapted...

The Internet has created a paradigm shift in how we consume and disseminate information. Data nowadays is spread over heterogeneous silos of archived and live data. People willingly share data on social media by posting news, views, presentations, pictures and videos. SNARC is a service that uses semantic web technology and combines services available on the web to aggregate social news. SNARC ...

News headlines are a vital source of information for the masses. Identifying diseases that are being spread or discovered is important to take necessary steps for their prevention and cure. Our system uses a syntactic and lexical constraint-based approach which then goes through a frequency analysis phase to extract meaningful disease names. In the task of top-150 (unique) disease mention recog...

studying translations during the time of conflict has gained currency in the recent decade in translation studies. one of the cases in which conflict manifests itself is in the way different countries choose to name an event or a geographical location, for example. this study set out to understand how translation of rival names and labeling was carried out in iranian state-run news agencies. to...