Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetori...

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High frequency can convert a word sequence into a multiword expression (MWE), i.e., a collocation. In this paper, we use collocations as well as syntactically-flexible, lexicalized phrases to analyze ‘job specification documents’ (a kind of corporate technical document) for subsequent acquisition of automated knowledge elicitation. We propose the definition of structural and functional patterns...

The chronosequence approach, which infers temporal patterns of environmental change from a spatial array of modern sites, has been a major tool for studying successional processes. A model of early lake ontogeny in boreal landscapes, developed from a chronosequence of lakes in Alaska, suggests that long-term soil development and related hydrological change produce a loss of alkalinity and base ...

This paper describes a tool for the automatic extension and trimming of a multilingual WordNet database for cross-lingual retrieval and multilingual ontology building in intranets and domain-specific document collections. Hierarchies, built from automatically extracted terms and combined with the WordNet relations, are trimmed with a disambiguation method based on the document salience of the w...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) for documents has been studied for a long time [3]. It focuses on indexing and retrieval capabilities in a large set of document images and provides a convenient way for people to access the information in these images, which means retrieving document images by their visual features (color,shape,texture,etc) so converting them to electronic formats can be av...

This paper describes a practical method to automatically create hypertext networks from technical structured documents. The physical structure of the documents allows to cut them in nodes when the crossed references determines associative links. The differents steps of the processing line are presented.

Event identification plays a crucial role in several natural language processing applications such as information extraction, question answering, and text analysis. In this paper, we describe a novel approach for analyzing events, their distribution, and the event mentions from a corpus of unlabeled business-based technical documents—a specific genre. In order to infer such mentions, we analyze...

The current system of academic publication developed as a means to disseminate the findings of research. However, this system can impede the very process it was set up to serve, with access to articles being limited by publishers to only those who can afford to subscribe. This poster will explain the vision behind DRIVER and will describe how the various aspects of the project tie in together t...

This paper aims to reveal the mechanism of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and how CDOs extend the current global financial crisis. We first introduce the concept of CDOs and give a brief account of the development of CDOs. We then explicate the mechanism of CDOs within a concrete example with mortgage deals and we outline the evolution of the current financial crisis. Based on our overv...