Initial mention as a signal to thematic content in technical passages

Content Analyses of Technical High School Textbooks as an Index of Attending to Vocational Training

Aiming at identification of the components of competence-based vocational training, and its status in textbooks used in technological high schools, a content analysis of five textbooks on non-technological competencies, commonly used in all fields, was undertaken utilizing a check list considered as valid by curriculum experts. Furthermore, a perusal of related texts and documents revealed thre...

Content Analysis (qualitative, Thematic)

Infiltration in cracking clay soils as affected by initial soil moisture content

A Comparison of Classification Techniques for Technical Text Passages

technique is applicable to free form, short text summaries of data that may be stored in a database, file, or document. We refer to these types of text as " technical text passages ". These summaries may not follow standard grammar conventions; they commonly contain abbreviations, technical phrases, misspelled words and industry specific acronyms. Typical types of text to be classified include ...

Don't Mention the Shoe! A Learning to Rank Approach to Content Selection for Image Description Generation

We tackle the sub-task of content selection as part of the broader challenge of automatically generating image descriptions. More specifically, we explore how decisions can be made to select what object instances should be mentioned in an image description, given an image and labelled bounding boxes. We propose casting the content selection problem as a learning to rank problem, where object in...