Natural Language Processing – IJCNLP 2005
Second International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005. Proceedings
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Semi-structured data are typically represented in the form of labeled directed graphs. They are self-describing and schemaless. The lack of a schema renders query processing over semi-structured data expensive...
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As the World Wide Web grows dramatically in recent years, there is increasing interest in semi-structured data on the web. Semi-structured data are usually represented in graph format, many graph schemas have ...
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Second International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005. Proceedings
Book and Conference Proceedings
Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2004, Bei**g, China, October 18-20, 2004. Revised Selected Papers
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A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation from English to Chinese ineffective. One way to solve this problem is not to rely on a dictionary alone but to adopt automatic translation ...
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We propose the Critical Sentence Vector Model (CSVM), a novel model to measure text similarity. The CSVM accounts for the structural and semantic information of the document. Compared to existing methods based on...
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Automatic transliteration of foreign names is basically regarded as a diminutive clone of the machine translation (MT) problem. It thus follows IBM’s conventional MT models under the source-channel framework. ...
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This article investigates the effectiveness of an information inference mechanism on Chinese text. The information inference derives implicit associations via computation of information flow on a high dimensio...
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Temporal question classification assigns time granularities to temporal questions ac-cording to their anticipated answers. It is very important for answer extraction and verification in the literature of tempo...
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A structural join evaluates structural relationship (parent-child or ancestor-descendant) between xml elements. It serves as an important computation unit in xml pattern matching, such as twig joins. There exists...
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Document clustering techniques mostly depend on models that impose explicit and/or implicit priori assumptions as to the number, size, disjunction characteristics of clusters, and/or the probability distributi...
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We investigate whether time features help to improve event-based summarization. In this paper, events are defined as event terms and the associated event elements. While event terms represent the actions thems...
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Opinion mining systems suffer a great loss when unknown opinion targets constantly appear in newly composed reviews. Previous opinion target extraction methods typically consider human-compiled opinion targets...
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Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s language. Existing approaches are foc...
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The Chinese sentences in news articles are usually very long, which set up obstacles for further opinion mining steps. Sentence compression is the task of producing a brief summary at the sentence level. Conve...
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As more and more people are willing to publish their attitudes and feelings in blogs, how to provide an efficient way to summarize and extract public opinion in blogosphere has become a major concern for both ...
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Adaptation techniques based on importance weighting were shown effective for RankSVM and RankNet, viz., each training instance is assigned a target weight denoting its importance to the target domain and incorpor...
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Topic-specific opinion summarization (TOS) plays an important role in hel** users digest online opinions, which targets to extract a summary of opinion expressions specified by a query, i.e. topic-specific o...
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Recently, blogs have emerged as the major platform for people to express their feelings and sentiments in the age of Web 2.0. The common emotions, which reflect people’s collective and overall sentiments, are ...
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Microblog has become a popular platform for people to share their ideas, information and opinions. In addition to textual content data, social relations and user behaviors in microblog provide us additional li...