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Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 1979
"... People who hold strong opinions on complex social issues are likely to examine relevant empirical evidence in a biased manner. They are apt to accept "confirming" evidence at face value while subjecting "discontinuing " evidence to critical evaluation, and as a result to draw und ..."
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People who hold strong opinions on complex social issues are likely to examine relevant empirical evidence in a biased manner. They are apt to accept "confirming" evidence at face value while subjecting "discontinuing " evidence to critical evaluation, and as a result to draw
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
, 1982
"... This is the original version of Principles and Practice, as published in 1982, with only minor changes. It is gratifying to point out that many of the predictions made in this book were confirmed by subsequent research, for example, the superiority of comprehensible-input based methods and sheltered ..."
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and sheltered subject matter teaching (Krashen, 2003), the inefficacy of error correction (Truscott, 1996, 1999), and the "power of reading " (Krashen, 2004). Subsequent research has also, in my opinion, confirmed that in footnote 5, chapter 3, option 3 is the correct one, that we acquire vocabulary
Extracting product features and opinions from reviews
, 2005
"... Consumers are often forced to wade through many on-line reviews in order to make an informed product choice. This paper introduces OPINE, an unsupervised informationextraction system which mines reviews in order to build a model of important product features, their evaluation by reviewers, and their ..."
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, and their relative quality across products. Compared to previous work, OPINE achieves 22 % higher precision (with only 3 % lower recall) on the feature extraction task. OPINE’s novel use of relaxation labeling for finding the semantic orientation of words in context leads to strong performance on the tasks
Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,
, 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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under government sponsorship are encouraged to express their own judgment freely, this report does not necessarily represent the official opinion or policy of the government. redesign are not fully adequate to meet the problems encountered in their application. Especially troublesome is the paucity
Software agents: An overview
- Knowledge Engineering Review
, 1996
"... Agent software is a rapidly developing area of research. However, the overuse of the word ‘agent ’ has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of research being carried out under this banner. This overview paper presents a typology of agents. Next, it places age ..."
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. It also proceeds to overview some other general issues which pertain to all the types of agents in the typology. This paper largely reviews software agents, and it also contains some strong opinions that are not necessarily widely accepted by the agent community. 1 1
Context-Based Vision System for Place and Object Recognition
, 2003
"... While navigating in an environment, a vision system has' to be able to recognize where it is' and what the main objects' in the scene are. In this paper we present a context-based vision system for place and object recognition. The goal is' to identify familiar locations' (e ..."
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that provides relevant information for place recognition and categorization, and how such contextual information introduces strong priors' that simplify object recognition. We have trained the system to recognize over 60 locations (indoors' and outdoors') and to suggest the presence and locations
Measuring praise and criticism: Inference of semantic orientation from association
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems
, 2003
"... The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. Positive semantic orientation indicates praise (e.g., “honest”, “intrepid”) and negative semantic orientation indicates criticism (e.g., “disturbing”, “superfluous”). Semantic orientation varies in both direction (positive or neg ..."
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or negative) and degree (mild to strong). An automated system for measuring semantic orientation would have application in text classification, text filtering, tracking opinions in online discussions, analysis of survey responses, and automated chat systems (chatbots). This article introduces a method
Just how mad are you? Finding strong and weak opinion clauses
- In Proceedings of AAAI
, 2004
"... identification and extraction of opinions and emotions in text. ..."
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identification and extraction of opinions and emotions in text.
Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
- Psychological Science.
, 1993
"... F or good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference for studying peoples' revealed preferences; that is, looking at individuals' actual choices and decisions rather than their stated intentions or subjective reports of likes and dislikes. Yet people often make choices that b ..."
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such as very pleasant and very unpleasant and by a neutral value. In a similar fashion, public opinion during a political debate is sometimes assessed by means of a "dial group," in which a group of observers continually indicate their pleasure or displeasure with the candidates' views
OPINIONS
"... The approval of mifepristone (Mifeprex), best known asRU-486, brings the strong differences of opinion re-garding abortion into even sharper focus. The availability of this drug makes abortion more accessible and conve-nient, and some consider the Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) action to be an ..."
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The approval of mifepristone (Mifeprex), best known asRU-486, brings the strong differences of opinion re-garding abortion into even sharper focus. The availability of this drug makes abortion more accessible and conve-nient, and some consider the Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) action
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