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Sentiment Detection

January 6, 2012 by admin

Measures of bias in news and social media coverage are essential when investigating trends and differing perceptions of various interest groups. A significant portion of news and social media coverage contains opinions with clear economic relevance – customer and travel reviews, for example, or the articles of well-known and respected bloggers who influence purchase decisions. [...]

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Simple Search

December 5, 2010 by admin

The search box is located in the top bar of the portal. The system supports the usual wildcard characters – while the asterisk (*) represents any number of unknown characters, the question mark (?) represents exactly one character. The syntax of additional options (source, location, date, etc.) is described in the advanced search section. Display [...]

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Advanced Search

December 5, 2010 by admin

Advanced query options extend the capabilities of the simple search. They enable users to filter the search results by specifying restrictions based on document metadata (title, source, date, geographic location, etc.): The title field of the documents can be queried using the title: operator; searching for “carbon dioxide title:ocean” will only return documents which contain [...]

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Similar Topics | Nearby Locations

December 5, 2010 by admin

Two just-in-time information retrieval agents list documents referring to similar topics and nearby locations relative to the Active Document (the term ‘nearby locations’ referring to the five documents with the closest target geography).The document markers (a-e, 1-5) are also used in the various maps to indicate the position of this document. The value underneath the [...]

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RSS Feeds

December 2, 2010 by admin

Users can subscribe to a number of RSS feeds for receiving automatically updated lists of similar documents (regarding topic and location), pinpoint a specific document, or list documents containing a certain content tag. Similar Topics. Documents on similar topics relative to the active document are available in RSS format at www.ecoresearch.net/climate/rss/topic/[source]/[contentid], where [source] is the [...]

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