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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"News articles"”.
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Event Detection and Extraction from News Articles
… the amount of available information (such as news, blogs, and social media) grows in exponential order. Therefore, it becomes imperative to develop algorithms that automatically extract the machine-readable information from large volumes of text data. In this dissertation, we focus on three …
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Modelling readers of news articles using nested beliefs
… on the Internet, in document databases or newspaper web sites can often lead to hundreds of documents being selected of which only a small number are of any interest to the user. This thesis is concerned with creating models of readers of news articles which could be used to filter and …
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Assessing the impact of annotation on understanding and retaining online news articles
Today's online news readers are distracted and inundated with content. Readers tend to skim and spend little time reading an article, leaving them less informed and sometimes, unknowingly, incorrectly informed since they may miss important details of an article. This behavior can also aid in the …
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A corpus-assisted study of the discourses of infertility in UK blogs, news articles and clinic websites
… written by people experiencing infertility, 2) news reports on the topic of infertility, and 3) fertility clinic websites, all collected in the UK context. I apply a combination of corpus linguistic methods to identify salient linguistic features, and close reading of these features in context …
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Eliminating Redundant and Less-informative RSS News Articles Based on Word Similarity and A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation
… amount of information, especially network news, that can be accessed by Internet users these days. As a result, the problem of seeking information in online news articles is not the lack of them but being overwhelmed by them. This brings huge challenges regarding processing of online news …
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Personalized News Recommender using Twitter
<p>Online news reading has become a widely popular way to read news articles from news sources around the globe. With the enormous amount of news articles available, users are easily swamped by information of little interest to them. News recommender systems are one approach to help users find …
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Rich and Poor Divide: How Portrayals of the Poor and Poverty in News Media Perpetuate Stigma and Inequality
… are poor are pervasive in our society. Online news media is one of the ways in which these power dominated messages are disseminated. Forty online news articles from four major news outlets in Canada were examined using Critical Discourse Analysis. Questions about how the language used in these …
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Measuring and Analyzing Community Resilience During COVID-19 Using Social Media
… thesis, I aim to assess the effect of various news and Tweets collected during the COVID-19 pandemic on community functionality and resilience. First, we measure the community resilience (CR) in five different countries using Tweeter data and investigated how each country shows different trends …
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Web-Based Automated System for Cyber Analytics
… processing techniques applied to web-scraped news articles? In this thesis, we introduce a Web-based Automated System for Cyber Analytics (WASCA) which seeks to address the fore mentioned research question. WASCA automatically collects data from publicly available news articles, analyzes the …
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Stock market predictions using machine learning
… is made to try and establish the impact of news articles and correlated stocks on any one stock. Stock prices are dependent on many factors, some of which are common for most stocks, and some are specific to a type of company. For instance, a product-based company's stocks are dependent on …
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Metaphorical Depictions of the American and Chinese Economies during the 2010 Financial Crisis
… the critical analysis of metaphors in economic news discourse during financial crisis, aiming to explore metaphorical images of the American and Chinese economies in economic news articles as representatives of distinct cultural and ideological backgrounds. It also examines whether these …
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Uncertainty in Internet-Based Cancer News
… content analysis of 1,120 Internet-based cancer news articles was completed, in which a presence/absence scale for five theoretically derived dimensions of uncertainty (i.e., too much information, too little information, ambiguous information, complex information, and conflicting information) was …
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Arabic News Text Classification and Summarization: A Case of the Electronic Library Institute SeerQ (ELISQ)
Arabic news articles in heterogeneous electronic collections are difficult for users to work with. Two problems are: that they are not categorized in a way that would aid browsing, and that there are no summaries or detailed metadata records that could be easier to work with than full articles. To …
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Time frames
… rich environment at all stages of the news distribution channel provides a unique opportunity to use these tools to improve the reader experience. Information provided for a general audience from a general source can be combined with small amounts of information specific to a reader to …
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Advancing sustainability indicators through text mining: a feasibility demonstration
… indicators by analyzing unstructured digital news articles with text mining methods. Using San Mateo County, California, as a case study, a non-mutually exclusive supervised classification algorithm with natural language processing techniques is applied to analyze sustainability content in …
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Addressing Challenges of Modern News Agencies via Predictive Modeling, Deep Learning, and Transfer Learning
Today's news agencies are moving from traditional journalism, where publishing just a few news articles per day was sufficient, to modern content generation mechanisms, which create more than thousands of news pieces every day. With the growth of these modern news agencies comes the arduous task of …
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An analytical study of word frequency for pedagogical purposes based on a corpus derived from the business news sections of locally published English language newspapers in Taiwan
… and they tend to find reading English language newspapers a formidable task. One of the reasons why the students find it difficult is the extensive vocabulary with which they have to deal when reading English news articles. Reading business news articles becomes more demanding for them on …
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"The Veteran Problem''? The American WWII Veteran
… of the veteran policy discourse in academic and news articles published during the Second World War. I conduct a textual analysis and apply frame theory to structure my study of 45 academic articles taken from JSTOR and 314 news articles taken from ProQuest. My findings reveal three distinct …
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The Influence of Health Framing on Weight Stigma and Health Knowledge
… about health is frequently communicated through news media, research has shown that news articles do not increase knowledge of physical health behaviors and instead increase weight stigma, which predicts decreased physical and mental health. Given that this method of presenting health information …
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