Using a sentiment analysis for the examination of tourism blogs – a step by step methodological reflection process

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Gero Szepannek ◽  
Laila Westphal ◽  
Werner Gronau ◽  
Tine Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Computational Methods ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given

Abstract The article at hand is driven by a methodological interest in the opportunities and challenges of applying an automated text mining approach, particularly a sentiment analysis on various tourism blogs at the same time. The study aims to answer the question to what extent advanced computational methods can improve the data acquisition and analysis of unstructured data sets stemming from various blogs and forums. Furthermore, the authors intend to explore to what extent the sentiment analysis is able to objectify the qualitative results identified by an earlier analysis by the authors using content analysis done by thematic coding. For the purpose of the specific tourism research question in this paper a new approach is proposed, which consists of a combination of sentiment analyses, supervised learning, and dimensionality reduction in order to identify terms that strongly load on specific emotions. The contribution indicates on the one hand, that advanced computational methods have their own specific constraints, but on the other hand, are able to provide a richer and deeper analysis following a quantitative approach. Several issues have to be taken into account, such as data protection constraints, the need for data cleaning, such as word stemming, dimension reduction, such as removal of custom stop words, and the development of descent ontologies. On the other hand, the quantitative method also provides, due to its standardised procedure, a less subjective insight in the given content, but is not less time consuming than traditional content analysis.

Data Documents

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-328
Author(s):  
Dominic Farace ◽  
Hélène Prost ◽  
Antonella Zane ◽  
Birger Hjørland ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Bibliometric Data ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Data Citation ◽  
Philosophical Assumption ◽  
The One

This article presents and discusses different kinds of data documents, including data sets, data studies, data papers and data journals. It provides descriptive and bibliometric data on different kinds of data documents and discusses the theoretical and philosophical problems by classifying documents according to the DIKW model (data documents, information documents, knowl­edge documents and wisdom documents). Data documents are, on the one hand, an established category today, even with its own data citation index (DCI). On the other hand, data documents have blurred boundaries in relation to other kinds of documents and seem sometimes to be understood from the problematic philosophical assumption that a datum can be understood as “a single, fixed truth, valid for everyone, everywhere, at all times”

scholarly journals Tropopause and jetlet characteristics in relation to thunderstorm development over Cyprus

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
A. Orphanou ◽  
K. Nicolaides ◽  
D. Charalambous ◽  
P. Lingis ◽  
S. C. Michaelides
Keyword(s):  
Wind Direction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Radiosonde Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract. In the present study, the monthly statistical characteristics of jetlet and tropopause in relation to the development of thunderstorms over Cyprus are examined. For the needs of the study the 12:00 UTC radiosonde data obtained from the Athalassa station (33.4° E, 35.1° N) for an 11-year period, from 1997 till 2007, were employed. On the basis of this dataset, the height and the temperature of the tropopause, as well as the height, wind direction and speed of the jetlet were estimated. Additionally, the days in the above period with observed thunderstorms were selected and the aforementioned characteristics of the jetlet and tropopause were noted. The two data sets were subsequently contrasted in an attempt to identify possible relations between thunderstorm development, on the one hand, and tropopause and jetlet characteristics, on the other hand.

Is It Privacy or Is It Access Control?

2014 ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia L. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Online Systems ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

With the widespread use of online systems, there is an increasing focus on maintaining the privacy of individuals and information about them. This is often referred to as a need for privacy protection. The author briefly examines definitions of privacy in this context, roughly delineating between keeping facts private and statistical privacy that deals with what can be inferred from data sets. Many of the mechanisms used to implement what is commonly thought of as access control are the same ones used to protect privacy. This chapter explores when this is not the case and, in general, the interplay between privacy and access control on the one hand and, on the other hand, the separation of these models from mechanisms for their implementation.

scholarly journals Consumer Motivations for Sharing Luxury Brands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Saju
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
Consumer Acceptance ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Luxury Brand ◽  
Brand Communities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Luxury marketers have been watching the rise of sharing startups and the unprecedented consumer acceptance of the same with trepidation. This phenomenon has the potential of scuttling the apple cart of legacy luxury brands and the conventional way of marketing. Thus, the author makes an attempt to dissect the consumer motivations for sharing precious possessions on the one hand and using such services on the other hand. By observing such phenomenon at close quarters using in-depth consumer interviews supplemented by netnographic observation of luxury brand communities, this paper attempts to capture the enablers of a changing consumer psyche in order to chart out strategic implications for brand custodians. In short, this paper examines the following research question a) what are the consumer motivations for sharing as well as using shared luxury brands b) what are the enablers of consumer transition from ownership centric to experience centric consumption of luxury.

scholarly journals The Power of Corruption: Xenophon on the Upbringing of a Good Citizen in Sparta

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Mishurin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given

In the given article, the author offers an interpretation of the work titled Lacedaimonion Politeia, written by the ancient political philosopher Xenophon of Athens. Judging from Xenophon’s sober and open-minded attitude to the regime he researches, the author focuses on the central issue of the treatise, namely, the upbringing of a virtuous or good citizen. This became the cornerstone of Sparta’s success as a polis, and provided it with a fame as a unique political entity praised by all, but copied by none. The author identifies the three stages of the Spartan education given by Xenophon and continues with the practices of its implementation at a mature age. The research makes it clear that the purpose of the laws of Lycurgus, as described by Xenophon, is twofold. On the one hand, the given laws instill respect, obedience, and the virtue of manliness which the lawgiver desired in citizens. On the other hand, the laws create citizens who merely imitate the above-described traits of character and law-abidance, and who are actually more like unmitigated criminals constantly fighting with each other. It is the second type of people—good criminals—who find themselves in power in Sparta, and they are the ones who end up destroying the Spartan state. By providing this diagnosis of the Spartan regime and the laws of Lycurgus, Xenophon attempts to show that handling the problem of the education of good citizens as suggested in Sparta is misguided and requires additional deliberation.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of transposed inverse sets in faber regions

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Adepoju ◽  
M. Nassif
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Result Theorem ◽  
Simple Set ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
Result Theorem ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given ◽  
Class Of Functions

The effectiveness properties, in Faber regions, of the transposed inverse of a given basic set of polynominals, are investigated in the present paper. A certain inevitable normalizing substitution, is first formulated, to be undergone by the given set to ensure the existence of the transposed inverse in the Faber region. The first main result of the present work (Theorem 2.1), on the one hand, provides a lower bound of the class of functions for which the normalized transposed inverse set is effective in the Faber region. On the other hand, the second main result (Theorem 5.2) asserts the fact that the normalized transposed inverse set of a simple set of polynomials, which is effective in a Faber region, should not necessarily be effective there.

scholarly journals O pewnych procesach frazeologizacji z perspektywy modelu składni semantycznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Korytkowska
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Lexical Entry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One

On certain processes of phraseologization from the perspective of the semantic syntax modelThis article analyzes the status of sentential structures of the type Wątpię w Piotra in Polish and Съмнявам се в Петър in Bulgarian “I doubt about Peter”, taking into account the specificity of their meanings, which are different in both languages. On the basis of the semantic syntax model, the article investigates the possibility of, on the one hand, analyzing such structures as elements of a subcategorization frame and, on the other hand, as examples of structures that undergo the process of phraseologization. The conclusions reached in the article result from this contrastive study. The research question addressed in this paper is relevant for the problem of the form and the boundaries of a lexical entry, which is an important issue in lexicography.О некоторых процессах фразеологизации в перспективе модели семантического синтаксисаВ статье представлен анализ статуса предложных структур типа польск. Wątpię w Piotra, болг. Съмнявам се в Петър, при этом учтена специфика их значения, различающая анализируемые языки. На основании модели семантического синтаксиса рассмотрена, с одной стороны, возможность причисления данных структур к элементам валентного образца, а с другой стороны, данные конструкции показаны как пример структур, подлежащих процессу фразеологизации. В статье представлены выводы сопоставительного характера. Анализируемая проблема касается важных для лексикографии вопросов границы и формы словарной статьи.

scholarly journals Influencers and covid_19: Characterizing and defining courses of action

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain Boulet ◽  
Jean-Fabrice Lebraty
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand

Based upon the 55 days of lockdown that occurred during the Covid_19 disaster, the aim of this article is to answer to the following research question: “how can we characterize influencers in social networks?”. Analyzing more than 1.6 million of tweets, we propose a matrix that can be used to characterize an influencer. This matrix has 2 dimensions on one hand the five courses of actions an influencer can use and on the other hand the 3 types of motivation he has got. Regarding the methodology we used R and a qualitative content analysis and provided our scripts. This research is a part of the “lockdown lab” project.

scholarly journals Levinas and the Anticolonial

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-181
Author(s):  
Patrick D. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dividing Line

Over the last two decades, the various attempts to “radicalize” Levinas have resulted in two interesting and often separated debates: one the one hand, there is the debate regarding the relationship between Levinas and colonialism and racism, and on the other hand, there is the debate regarding the relationship between Levinas and Judaism. Whether scholars interested in issues of colonialism disregard Levinas's Judaism or use his "subaltern" identity to challenge European hegemony, they do not take seriously the Jewish content of Levinas's thought. In this essay, I challenge the prevailing postcolonial orinetation of the Levinas-colonialism conversation, approaching Levinas's phenomenology from an anticolonial perspective. I will use Frantz Fanon’s dualistic understanding of the colonial world to evaluate the adequacy of Levinas’s phenomenology in describing the ontological structure of the colony and the historical experience of the colonized within it. Levinas’s incomplete understanding of the Holocaust as colonialism contributes to his failure to recognize the dividing line of colonial ontology, the zone of nonbeing, the non-human status of the colonized, and ultimately contributes to the insufficiency of his phenomenology to describe the colony. Because my purpose is not to reject Levinas’s thought in general but to encourage a new approach to his work, in the conclusion I will gesture toward the need for an anticolonial reading of Levinas’s project for Jewish education. 

Perceptual opposites and the modulation of contrast in irony

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Canestrari ◽  
Ivana Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Intermediate Region ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Previous Evidence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Abstract This paper proposes a new way of analyzing the contrast between an ironic comment and the referent context by focusing on the structure of the dimension which the contrast belongs to. This new approach was stimulated by previous experimental studies demonstrating that dimensions are perceptually made up of two opposite poles and an intermediate region consisting either of point or range properties. Applying this schema it became clear that, on the one hand what previous evidence-based literature mostly focuses on is the idea that for an ironic meaning to be detected there must be a contrast between two poles or within a pole; on the other hand, that there is room for new investigations concerning whether it is possible to make ironic comments containing poles to refer to intermediate situations (i.e. situations perceived as neither one pole nor the other) or, vice versa, to make ironic comments containing intermediates to refer to polarized situations.

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