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title: Chinese Micro Blog Sentiment Analysis Based on Multiple Sentiment Dictionaries and Semantic Rule Sets
abstract: Sentiment analysis of Chinese micro blog based on sentiment dictionary has become a challenging research subject in the field of artificial intelligence. However, due to insufficient sentiment words, Chinese micro blog sentiment analysis is difficult to process high accuracy. Aimed at this issue, we propose a method for constructing multiple sentiment dictionaries, which mainly constructs original sentiment dictionary, emoji dictionary, and other related dictionaries. Among them, we have innovatively constructed a Chinese micro blog new word sentiment dictionary. Multiple sentiment dictionaries increase the coverage of sentiment words. At the same time, we further analyze semantic rule sets between Chinese micro blog texts and take the inter sentence analysis rules and sentence pattern analysis rules into the sentiment analysis of Chinese micro blog, which further improves the accuracy of Chinese micro blog sentiment analysis. Finally, based on the method of multiple sentiment dictionaries and semantic rule sets, we propose an algorithm for Chinese micro blog sentiment calculation from complex sentences to clauses and then from clauses to words, and finally combined with the emoji. This algorithm can accurately classify Chinese micro blog into positive Chinese micro blog, negative Chinese micro blog, and neutral Chinese micro blog. The experimental results show that this method has greatly improved the sentiment analysis of Chinese micro blog.

title: Improving the Speaking Skill by Vlog (video blog) as Learning Media: The EFL Students Perspective
abstract: Nowadays, speaking skill is needed for all people in the world including students. The rapid development of computer and Internet technologies has helped the language learning especially in speaking. The purposes of this research were: 1) to know how students' perspective on the use of video blog to improve speaking skill and 2) to study about what student's strategy in using video blog to improve speaking skill. The samples were 5 students of Information and Technology (IT) Department in one of University in Indonesia who learnt speaking subject. This qualitative research applied a purposeful sampling technique to get samples. The method of the research concerned to the students' perspective in the use of video blog and students' strategy to use it while the data came from the students' interview and observation. The result shows that students' perspective on the use of video blog to improve speaking skill is good through various strategies. Furthermore, students have good English skills by using video blog as the media to learn English.

title: Can media forecast technological progress? A text mining approach to the on line newspaper and blog's representation of prospective industrial technologies
abstract: This article critically assesses the utility of both personal blog and mass media (on line newspaper)'s coverage of future technology in forecasting the prospect of industrial technology. By analyzing the statistical pattern of the South Korean media salience in 13 novel industrial technologies in 2015, the study argues that the mass media is more biased than aggregated blogs in depicting promising new technology. In doing so, the authors present a methodical pathway to address the bias with acceleration and skewness index. The article also applies semantic network analysis for the collected textual data of blogs to represent and interpret people's perspective of industrial technologies. By extracting key concepts from PBS index and merging semantic networks of the 13 technologies, the study derives a key insight that nurturing expertise in the coming era of artificial intelligence and robot would become crucial to integrate key technological competence.

title: The multi tag semantic correlation used for micro blog user interest modeling
abstract: Tags play an important role in expressing the interests and attributes of microblog users, but the implicit semantic meaning of user tags is often ignored. We propose an improved micro blog user interest modeling approach based on multi tag semantic correlation via analyzing tag relationship and the limitations of the existing micro blog user interest models. Firstly, the co occurrence frequency of tag pair is calculated from the micro blog user collection to obtain the intra correlation between tag pair, the path is constructed based on the linking tags for each tag pair and the inter correlation of tag pair is obtained via the shared entropy. Secondly, usertags are clustered and representative tags are obtained according to the similarity between tags, to construct the tags representative tags matrix. Finally, we combine the above two correlations to acquire the semantic correlation matrix, based on which the users tags matrix can be updated, thus the micro blog user interest model based on multi tag semantic correlation can be obtained. We evaluate our method through a series of experiments based on a dataset crawled from the open API and the results are analyzed. The results show that the interest expression model of microblog users proposed in this paper can better represent the interest characteristics of users.

title: Vocabulary learning from watching YouTube videos and reading blog posts
abstract: The present study compared L2 vocabulary acquisition from engagement with two different online media: written blog posts and video blogs. It also explored whether there are differences regarding which aspects of vocabulary knowledge orthography, semantics, and grammatical function! are best learned from these media. The results showed that incidental vocabulary learning occurred, in approximately equal amounts, through reading blog posts and watching video blogs. There were some indications that different types of vocabulary knowledge were gained from the two type of media. The written blog entries promoted greater gains in orthographic knowledge than the videos. There was also some tentative evidence that the videos may have promoted greater recall of the target words' grammatical functions, and greater recognition and recall of their meanings.

title: Science in the Social Media Age: Profiles of Science Blog Readers
abstract: Science blogs have become an increasingly important component of the ecosystem of science news on the Internet. Through a survey of 2,955 readers of 40 randomly selected science blogs, we created profiles of science blog users. Super users indicated reading science blogs for a wide range of reasons, including for community seeking purposes. One way entertainment users indicated reading blogs more for entertainment and ambiance. Unique information seeking users indicated reading blogs more for specific information not found elsewhere. But regardless of science blog users' motivations to read, they are sophisticated consumers of science media possessing high levels of scientific knowledge.

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title: Thematic analysis of blog narratives written by people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias and care partners
abstract: Limited research takes a socio biographical approach to study the experiences and perspectives of individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The purpose of this study was to thematically analyze blog narratives written by people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and care partners in order to increase understanding of their experiences. Nineteen blogs written by people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and 44 blogs written by care partners were analyzed. The first two authors utilized line by line open coding to analyze five posts from each group for the development of a codebook. Using NVivo software, the first author proceeded to code the remaining blogs for emergent themes and subcategories. Emergent themes included (1) effects of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia on the person with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and/or the care partner; (2) seeing the positives; (3) feeling out of control; (4) advocacy and empowerment; (5) coping mechanisms and compensatory strategies; and (6) candid descriptions of experiences with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. These themes also encompassed numerous subcategories that are discussed in this paper. Results from this study provide insights into the experiences of individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. Writers discussed several topics that are consistent with research on illness narratives of individuals with chronic diseases, including loss of identity, strategies for coping, and poignant descriptions of life with the disease. This study provides information in the form of overlapping themes from first person perspectives of numerous individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. This type of data is crucial to understand the experiences of people who live with ADRD.

title: Consumer attitudes towards bloggers and paid blog advertisements: what's new?
abstract: Reports show that 6.77m people published blogs on blogging websites and more than 12m people write blogs using their social network. However, few studies have explored consumer attitudes toward bloggers and their advertising. Therefore, an effort to discover how paid blog advertisements influence consumer attitudes toward bloggers and the products they advertise will help marketers gain an understanding of how to use bloggers as paid sponsors to influence consumer purchase intent. Using online survey approach, a study recruited participants (n=210) through an online survey platform (MTurk) The results indicated that the similarity between the consumer and the ad creator is an important psychological reason why consumers are more likely to perceive advertisements as more authentic, more affective, less deceptive and more credible, and they are thus more likely to trust the blogger. On the other hand, the importance of ad attribute (authenticity) does not significantly influence consumers' intention to purchase products advertised by a blogger. As consumers are becoming more skeptical of advertisements, blogs need to be entertaining and a pleasure to view. Not only does the content need to be interesting, the design, flow and clarity of the blogs must also be considered important factors. In addition, advertising needs to be believable, credible and honest. In the online world, trust and credibility are still paramount in attracting consumers' engagement; hence, promoting companies' products and services through blogs can be an effective strategy to lower consumer skepticism barriers. The paper aims to discuss these issues.,Participants answered questions about their attitudes toward bloggers and their advertising when purchasing products in an online retail environment. Furthermore, participants also answered questions about their perceived trust in the bloggers themselves as well as the authenticity and credibility of the brand related communication received from bloggers. Moreover, they reported on their attitudes toward how deceptive they considered bloggers and their advertising to be. Finally, participants reported how paid blog advertisements influence their purchase intent.,Similarity toward the ad creator is an important psychological reason behind consumers' attitude toward blogs. Consumers who follow a blog often have the same interests and are thus more likely to support bloggers. This idea can be used as a segmentation strategy to reach particular consumers. Consumers who perceive similarity with the ad creator are more likely to recognize the ads as more authentic, affective, credible and trustworthy as well as less deceptive, regarding the blogger. Blogs need to be entertaining and a pleasure to view. Not only does the content need to be interesting but the design, flow and clarity of the blog are also important factors. Blog advertising needs to be believable, credible and honest. In the online world, trust and credibility are still paramount in attracting consumers' engagement with the website, bloggers or social media.,Trust in the blogger did not influence consumers' purchase intent; however, it did influence their attitude toward how similar they are with the blogger. In an online shopping environment, the human touch and personal contact between consumers and retailers has been lost. Consumers often leave the online transaction due to a lack of trust. Therefore, bloggers can be replacements for the missing "salesperson" in online interactions. Companies can use bloggers as the mediating person to reach their intended audiences, bridging the gap between the company and consumers.

title: Assessing an innovative advanced academic writing course through blog assisted language learning: Issues and resolutions
abstract: The development of Web 2.0 technologies has made a multitude of educational innovations possible in language classrooms. The aim of this inquiry is to explore advanced English language learners' perceptions, motivation and confidence along with their perceived strengths and weaknesses of learning academic writing through blog assisted language learning (BALL) Data were collected from a research based university in the USA in which BALL was mandated for writing instruction, and analysed qualitatively using the principles of inductive analysis in which research propositions and interpretations were processed concurrently. Data reveal that though learners perceive their writing instruction through BALL positively, their learning confidence and motivation are not strengthened. It is also discovered that learners are acutely aware of the advantages and disadvantages that BALL possesses based on their writing instruction. This article further argues that instead of jumping on the bandwagon of Web 2.0 technologies for BALL to be implemented at many higher institutions, programme directors and teachers are advised to be cognizant of the potential ramifications that might adversely influence students' learning trajectory.