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Just a blurb at the bottom of the sports page of the Daily
News, a piece about four lines long, said, "Boxer Jerry Flowers and
his acknowledged paramour found dead in his estranged wife's
Brooklyn apartment. Police are terming the deaths a
'murder-suicide.'" No other details mentioned the bizarre
circumstances surrounding the affair. Nothing told of the passions,
the love, hate, sex and superstitions that twisted the case from
start to finish. The murderer left a trail a mile wide. The police
could have followed the trail except for the relationship that
developed between the "wronged widow" and the precinct police
chief. The case closed very quickly. But not the repercussions that
reached into all the families involved -- into the next generation
and beyond. Did the death of the lovers satify the killer? Was
there punishment for the crime? Who paid the Piper? The tale winds
from the streets of a small Italian hamlet to a Brooklyn
neighborhood with the feel of a village. We meet people of
differing cultures and customs that play a strong role in the lives
and deaths. Right to the end.
An important part of our information-gathering behavior has always
been to find out what other people think. With the growing
availability and popularity of opinion-rich resources such as
online review sites and personal blogs, new opportunities and
challenges arise as people can, and do, actively use information
technologies to seek out and understand the opinions of others. The
sudden eruption of activity in the area of opinion mining and
sentiment analysis, which deals with the computational treatment of
opinion, sentiment, and subjectivity in text, has thus occurred at
least in part as a direct response to the surge of interest in new
systems that deal directly with opinions as a first-class object.
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis covers techniques and
approaches that promise to directly enable opinion-oriented
information-seeking systems. The focus is on methods that seek to
address the new challenges raised by sentiment-aware applications,
as compared to those that are already present in more traditional
fact-based analysis. The survey includes an enumeration of the
various applications, a look at general challenges and discusses
categorization, extraction and summarization. Finally, it moves
beyond just the technical issues, devoting significant attention to
the broader implications that the development of opinion-oriented
information-access services have: questions of privacy,
vulnerability to manipulation, and whether or not reviews can have
measurable economic impact. To facilitate future work, a discussion
of available resources, benchmark datasets, and evaluation
campaigns is also provided. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
is the first such comprehensive survey of this vibrant and
important research area and will be of interest to anyone with an
interest in opinion-oriented information-seeking systems.
Three short films directed by Asian horror's most controversial
directors. Fruit Chan directs a forty-minute cut of his earlier
film 'Dumplings', with newly shot footage. 'Box' is directed by
Takashi Miike, and follows a romantic novelist who is haunted by a
childhood trauma. Finally, 'Cut' is directed by Chan-Wook Park, and
follows a disgruntled film extra who forces an affable director to
prove that he has a nasty streak of his own.
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