Authors are requested to select key words from the following list. You may use plurals and adjectives for combinations like absolute pupillary response, centrifugal optic nerve, inter blobs, etc. If key words are needed which do not appear in this list, please underline them. For animal classification the Latin nomenclature should be used. p-mechanism A-scan a-wave aberration absolute absorptio...

An issue in operating a national electric system is how the corporate image of an Independent System Operator (ISO) can be impacted by disturbances in the system and their related news publications from specialized press. To deal with it, a solution was developed in the context of the Brazilian Electric System National Operator (ONS): an analytical system for disturbances analysis integrating b...

Television news has gained a new dimension in terms of ideological approaches as a result of such factors as globalization, cross monopolization, presence of international companies etc. and certain strategies have been developed at the production, presentation and distribution stages of news. In this study, television news about a process called “settlement process” was investigated. In this f...

Companies’ realized earnings depend on overall economic conditions. Market participants should therfore adjust their earnings expectations to surprising macroeconomic news. However, despite its importance for asset pricing models, thus far, empirical research was not able to provide clear-cut evidence of a link between earnings expectations and economic news. Based on a detailed analysis of the...

In our information era, keywords are very useful to information retrieval, text clustering and so on. News is always a domain attracting a large amount of attention. Aiming at news documents' characteristics and the resources available, this paper proposes to use Maximum Entropy (ME) model to conduct automatic keyword indexing. The focus of ME-based keyword indexing is how to obtain all the can...

This paper addresses the process of the ontology extension for a selected domain of interest which is defined by keywords and possibly a glossary of relevant terms. A new methodology for semi-automatic ontology extension, aggregating the elements of text mining and user-dialog approaches for ontology extension, is proposed and evaluated. We conduct a set of ranking, tagging and illustrative que...

We present a method to create special domain collections from news sites. The method only requires a single sample article as a seed. No prior corpus statistics are needed and the method is applicable to multiple languages. We examine various similarity measures and the creation of document collections for English and Japanese. The main contributions are as follows. First, the algorithm can bui...

Automatic indexing to image data is in strong demand. Utilizing accompanying natural language information is considered e ective to accomplish the task. As a basis for semantic indexing, we propose an automatic television caption semantic analysis method, which analyzes semantic attributes of Japanese television news captions referring to su xes. This is a basic pre-process required to enable a...