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Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead

21st International Conference, ICCPOL 2006, Singapore, December 17-19, 2006, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4285)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ICCPOL: International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages

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Table of contents (56 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Information Retrieval/Document Classification/QA/ Summarization I

    1. Answering Contextual Questions Based on the Cohesion with Knowledge

      • Tatsunori Mori, Shinpei Kawaguchi, Madoka Ishioroshi
      Pages 1-12
    2. Using Pointwise Mutual Information to Identify Implicit Features in Customer Reviews

      • Qi Su, Kun Xiang, Houfeng Wang, Bin Sun, Shiwen Yu
      Pages 22-30
    3. Using Semi-supervised Learning for Question Classification

      • Nguyen Thanh Tri, Nguyen Minh Le, Akira Shimazu
      Pages 31-41
    4. Query Similarity Computing Based on System Similarity Measurement

      • Chengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqin Xu, Xinning Su
      Pages 42-50
  3. Information Retrieval/Document Classification/ QA/Summarization II

    1. Clique Percolation Method for Finding Naturally Cohesive and Overlapping Document Clusters

      • Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Yunqing Xia, Ruifeng Xu
      Pages 97-108
    2. Hybrid Approach to Extracting Information from Web-Tables

      • Sung-won Jung, Mi-young Kang, Hyuk-chul Kwon
      Pages 109-119
    3. A Novel Hierarchical Document Clustering Algorithm Based on a kNN Connection Graph

      • Qiaoming Zhu, Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Peifeng Li, Peide Qian
      Pages 120-130
  4. Poster Session 1

    1. The Effects of Computer Assisted Instruction to Train People with Reading Disabilities Recognizing Chinese Characters

      • Wan-Chih Sun, Tsung-Ren Yang, Chih-Chin Liang, Ping-Yu Hsu, Yuh-Wei Kung
      Pages 139-148
    2. A Comparative Study on Chinese Word Clustering

      • Bo Wang, Houfeng Wang
      Pages 157-164
    3. Collecting Novel Technical Terms from the Web by Estimating Domain Specificity of a Term

      • Takehito Utsuro, Mitsuhiro Kida, Masatsugu Tonoike, Satoshi Sato
      Pages 173-180
    4. Building Document Graphs for Multiple News Articles Summarization: An Event-Based Approach

      • Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan, Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Kam-Fai Wong
      Pages 181-188

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, ICCPOL 2006, held in Singapore in December 2006, colocated with ISCSLP 2006, the 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing.

The 36 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 169 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, document classification, questions and answers, summarization, machine translation, word segmentation, chunking, abbreviation expansion, writing-system issues, parsing, semantics, and lexical resources.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

    Yuji Matsumoto

  • Dept of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Richard W. Sproat

  • Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

    Kam-Fai Wong

  • State Key Lab of Intelligent Tech. & Sys., Tsinghua University,  

    Min Zhang

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