Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
A core ontology is a mid-level ontology which bridges the gap between an upper ontology and a domain ontology. Automatic Chinese core ontology construction can help quickly model ...
Large amounts of remotely sensed data calls for data mining techniques to fully utilize their rich information content. In this paper, we study new means of discovery and summariz...
We investigate the impact of time on the predictability of sentiment classification research for models created from web logs. We show that sentiment classifiers are time dependen...
In real-life decision analysis, the probabilities and values of consequences are in general vague and imprecise. One way to model imprecise probabilities is to represent a probabi...