Weibo and other popular Chinese microblogging sites are well known for exercising internal
censorship, to comply with Chinese government requirements. This research seeks to …

Although studies have increasingly linked air pollution to specific health outcomes, less well
understood is how public perceptions of air quality respond to changing pollutant levels. The …

We present measurements and analysis of censorship on Weibo, a popular microblogging
site in China. Since we were limited in the rate at which we could download posts, we …

Reading ability of an individual is believed to be one of the major sections in language
competency. From this perspective, determination of topical writings for second language …

This paper explores two separate questions: Can we perform natural language processing
tasks without a lexicon?; and, Should we? Existing natural language processing techniques …

Ethical filtering has been a painful and controversial issue seen by different angles
worldwide. Stalwarts for freedom find newer methods to circumvent banned URLs while …