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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
291

The Use Of Kullback-Leibler Divergence In Opinion Retrieval

Cen, Kun 24 September 2008 (has links)
With the huge amount of subjective contents in on-line documents, there is a clear need for an information retrieval system that supports retrieval of documents containing opinions about the topic expressed in a user’s query. In recent years, blogs, a new publishing medium, have attracted a large number of people to express personal opinions covering all kinds of topics in response to the real-world events. The opinionated nature of blogs makes them a new interesting research area for opinion retrieval. Identification and extraction of subjective contents from blogs has become the subject of several research projects. In this thesis, four novel methods are proposed to retrieve blog posts that express opinions about the given topics. The first method utilizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) to weight the lexicon of subjective adjectives around query terms. Considering the distances between the query terms and subjective adjectives, the second method uses KLD scores of subjective adjectives based on distances from the query terms for document re-ranking. The third method calculates KLD scores of subjective adjectives for predefined query categories. In the fourth method, collocates, words co-occurring with query terms in the corpus, are used to construct the subjective lexicon automatically. The KLD scores of collocates are then calculated and used for document ranking. Four groups of experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed methods on the TREC test collections. The results of the experiments are compared with the baseline systems to determine the effectiveness of using KLD in opinion retrieval. Further studies are recommended to explore more sophisticated approaches to identify subjectivity and promising techniques to extract opinions.
292

Punitive Warfare: Measuring The Effects of a Punitive Disposition On Public Support For War

Thomas, Paul I, Mr. 21 August 2012 (has links)
Recent research has posited that retributiveness is an individual level disposition that can help us understand foreign policy preferences (e.g. Liberman 2006, Liberman 2007, Liberman in press, Stein n.d.). However, previous research is limited in two related respects. First, previous research relies on correlational data, blunting our ability to make clear causal inferences. Also, retributiveness is not made theoretically distinct from general hawkishness. In this paper, I present results from two experiments to refine our understanding of how retributiveness can affect support for use of the military. In the first experiment, I examine how retributiveness affects support for greater military commitment across a number of potential missions. In the second experiment, I examine how retributiveness interacts with different rhetorical justifications for military endeavors (e.g. punishing transgressors versus eliminating a foreign policy threat).
293

The Dynamics of Public Opinion and Military Alliances : Japan’s Role in the Gulf War and Iraq Invasion

Bendiksen, Stian Carstens January 2012 (has links)
No description available.
294

The Use Of Kullback-Leibler Divergence In Opinion Retrieval

Cen, Kun 24 September 2008 (has links)
With the huge amount of subjective contents in on-line documents, there is a clear need for an information retrieval system that supports retrieval of documents containing opinions about the topic expressed in a user’s query. In recent years, blogs, a new publishing medium, have attracted a large number of people to express personal opinions covering all kinds of topics in response to the real-world events. The opinionated nature of blogs makes them a new interesting research area for opinion retrieval. Identification and extraction of subjective contents from blogs has become the subject of several research projects. In this thesis, four novel methods are proposed to retrieve blog posts that express opinions about the given topics. The first method utilizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) to weight the lexicon of subjective adjectives around query terms. Considering the distances between the query terms and subjective adjectives, the second method uses KLD scores of subjective adjectives based on distances from the query terms for document re-ranking. The third method calculates KLD scores of subjective adjectives for predefined query categories. In the fourth method, collocates, words co-occurring with query terms in the corpus, are used to construct the subjective lexicon automatically. The KLD scores of collocates are then calculated and used for document ranking. Four groups of experiments are conducted to evaluate the proposed methods on the TREC test collections. The results of the experiments are compared with the baseline systems to determine the effectiveness of using KLD in opinion retrieval. Further studies are recommended to explore more sophisticated approaches to identify subjectivity and promising techniques to extract opinions.
295

The Impact of Short Sale and Opinion Divergence on Implied Volatility

Cheng, Hsin-Yeh 27 July 2010 (has links)
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296

Public attitudes toward the use of force and presidential crisis responses

Brule, David J 30 October 2006 (has links)
This dissertation explores the role of public opinion in U.S. presidential decisions to employ various alternatives in response to an international crisis. Presidents may choose from a range of force alternatives, including non-force alternatives, troop mobilizations, air strikes or ground assaults. Using the Poliheuristic Theory, I argue that public attitudes toward the use of force in a given crisis play a key role in the decision making process leading to such choices. The direction and intensity of public opinion is driven by a relative value assessment by which the public determines whether the benefits of a use of force are worth the costs. Presidents are aware of this relative value assessment and rule out crisis responses that are likely to violate the public's preferences in the first stage of the decision making process. In the second stage, presidents choose among the remaining alternatives by weighing the relative merits of each with respect to military and international-strategic implications. To test hypotheses following from this theoretical argument, I employ two methodological approaches. The first is statistical analysis. I develop a new data set of presidential crisis response choices and expand an existing data set on U.S. public attitudes toward the use of force, from 1949 to 2001. Using two extant data collections identifying international crises, I conduct Ordered Logit analyses, which produce results that are largely supportive of the hypotheses. The second methodological approach is the case study method. I conduct two detailed case studies of decisions to use force in Bosnia (1995) and Afghanistan (2001). These analyses are also supportive of the theoretical argument. I conclude that presidents are largely responsive to public opinion in the selection of crisis responses.
297

Chinese-Canadian and Hong Kong immigrant views on same-sex marriage

Wai, Daphina. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--York University (Canada), 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.
298

Das deutsche Russlandbild im frühen 18. Jahrhundert : Untersuchungen zur zeitgenössischen Presseberichterstattung über Russland unter Peter I. /

Blome, Astrid, January 2000 (has links)
Diss.--Universität Bremen, 1999. / Numéro de "Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte" = 0067-5903, Bd. 57 (2000). Bibliogr. p. 367-413. Index.
299

Overtuiging en geweld : vreedzame en gewelddadige acties tegen de apartheid /

Buijs, Frank Jaap, January 1900 (has links)
Texte remanié de: Proefschrift--Sociale wetenschappen--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1995. / Bibliogr. p. 301-312. Index.
300

Tidevarvets bättre genius : föreställningar om offentlighet och publicitet i Karl Johanstidens Sverige /

Rosengren, Cecilia, January 1900 (has links)
Avhandling--Göteborg, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 219-[225]. Résumé en anglais.

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