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This study considers a variant of the bounded confidence opinion formation model wherein the probability of opinion assimilation is dependent on the relative similarity of opinions. Agents are located on a social network and decide whether…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-14 Hirofumi Takesue

Blogs-Online digital diary like application on web 2.0 has opened new and easy way to voice opinion, thoughts, and like-dislike of every Internet user to the World. Blogosphere has no doubt the largest user-generated content repository full…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Mehwish Aziz , Muhammad Rafi

Semantic measures are widely used today to estimate the strength of the semantic relationship between elements of various types: units of language (e.g., words, sentences, documents), concepts or even instances semantically characterized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Sébastien Harispe , Sylvie Ranwez , Stefan Janaqi , Jacky Montmain

We introduce a family of paper and author similarity measures based on the concept that papers are more similar if they are more likely to be retrieved during a literature search following backward and forward citations. Since this browsing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Attila Varga , Sadamori Kojaku , Filipi Nascimento Silva

A measure of similarity between text embeddings can be considered adequate only if it adheres to the human perception of similarity between texts. In this paper, we introduce the distance-to-distance ratio (DDR), a novel measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Abdullah Qureshi , Kenneth Rice , Alexander Wolpert

Factual consistency is one of important summary evaluation dimensions, especially as summary generation becomes more fluent and coherent. The ESTIME measure, recently proposed specifically for factual consistency, achieves high correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Extracting the relevant information by exploiting the spatial data warehouse becomes increasingly hard. In fact, because of the enormous amount of data stored in the spatial data warehouse, the user, usually, don't know what part of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Saida Aissa , Mohamed Salah Gouider

The related concepts of partisan belief systems, issue alignment, and partisan sorting are central to our understanding of politics. These phenomena have been studied using measures of alignment between pairs of topics, or how much…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Letizia Iannucci , Ali Faqeeh , Ali Salloum , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

With the increasing capabilities of LLMs, recent studies focus on understanding whose opinions are represented by them and how to effectively extract aligned opinion distributions. We conducted an empirical analysis of three straightforward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Maja Pavlovic , Massimo Poesio

This paper gives lower bounds for the probability of consensus for two spatially explicit stochastic opinion models. Both processes are characterized by two finite connected graphs, that we call respectively the spatial graph and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Mela Hardin , Nicolas Lanchier

Patent similarity analysis plays a crucial role in evaluating the risk of patent infringement. Nonetheless, this analysis is predominantly conducted manually by legal experts, often resulting in a time-consuming process. Recent advances in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yongmin Yoo , Cheonkam Jeong , Sanguk Gim , Junwon Lee , Zachary Schimke , Deaho Seo

This article is concerned with a general class of stochastic spatial models for the dynamics of opinions. Like in the voter model, individuals are located on the vertex set of a connected graph and update their opinion at a constant rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Nicolas Lanchier , Stylianos Scarlatos

Real-world data typically contain a large number of features that are often heterogeneous in nature, relevance, and also units of measure. When assessing the similarity between data points, one can build various distance measures using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-27 Aldo Glielmo , Claudio Zeni , Bingqing Cheng , Gabor Csanyi , Alessandro Laio

Stance detection is the task of inferring viewpoint towards a given topic or entity either being supportive or opposing. One may express a viewpoint towards a topic by using positive or negative language. This paper examines how the stance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Abeer Aldayel , Walid Magdy

This paper provides a novel summary measure of ideological polarization in the American public based on the joint distribution of survey responses. Intuitively, polarization is maximized when views are concentrated at opposing extremes with…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-02 Alistair Pattison

With growing success in experimental implementations it is critical to identify a "gold standard" for quantum information processing, a single measure of distance that can be used to compare and contrast different experiments. We enumerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 Alexei Gilchrist , Nathan K. Langford , Michael A. Nielsen

Several messages express opinions about events, products, and services, political views or even their author's emotional state and mood. Sentiment analysis has been used in several applications including analysis of the repercussions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Pollyanna Gonçalves , Matheus Araújo , Fabrício Benevenuto , Meeyoung Cha

Today, with the emergence of semantic web technologies and increasing of information quantity, searching for information based on the semantic web has become a fertile area of research. For this reason, a large number of studies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Noreddine Gherabi , Abdelhadi Daoui , Abderrahim Marzouk

"What other people think" has always been an important piece of information during various decision-making processes. Today people frequently make their opinions available via the Internet, and as a result, the Web has become an excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Samaneh Moghaddam , Fred Popowich

Nowadays, internet has changed the world into a global village. Social Media has reduced the gaps among the individuals. Previously communication was a time consuming and expensive task between the people. Social Media has earned fame…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Saqib Iqbal , Ali Zulqurnain , Yaqoob Wani , Khalid Hussain