This paper describes the submission of the SAP Research & Innovation team at the #Microposts2014 NEEL Challenge. We use a two-stage approach for named entity extraction and linking, based on conditional random fields and an ensemble of search APIs and rules, respectively. A surprising result of our work is that part-of-speech tags alone are almost sufficient for entity extraction. Our results f...

This paper describes details of our participation in the NTCIR-6 Chinese-to-Chinese Question Answering task. We use the “retrieval plus extraction approach” to get answers for questions. We first split the documents into short passages, and then retrieve potentially relevant passages for a question, and finally extract named entity answers from the most relevant passages. For question type iden...

This paper describes the work for our participation in the NTCIR-5 Chinese to Chinese Question Answering task. Our strategy is based on the “Retrieval plus Extraction” approach. We first retrieve relevant documents, then retrieve short passages from the above documents, and finally extract named entity answers from the most relevant passages. For question type identification, we use simple heur...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT---------------------------------------------------------------Several multi-pass algorithms have been proposed for Association Rule Mining from static repositories. However, such algorithms are incapable of online processing of transaction streams. In this paper we introduce an efficient single-pass algorithm for ...

In this paper, we describe our submission to the Shared Task #1. We tried to follow the underlying idea of the task, that is, evaluating the gap of full-fledged recognizing textual entailment systems with respect to compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs) applied to this task. We thus submitted two runs: 1) a system obtained with a machine learning approach based on the feature spa...

shiism, like other islamic sects, believed in the existence of sharia as a comprehensive guide from allah. in the islamic primary sources, as in quran and traditions which are the primary basis for the political fiqh, sharia entered the political life arena of the moslems. from the early second century so far, shiite political fiqh started developing. this trend towards political fiqh was stren...

Islamic financial literacy in institutions the city of Pekanbaru, from data revealed that level Indonesian bank customers, can be stated good condition and high interest using services, this is results study with an average category (3.8). The reveals Sharia on knowledge, trust skills, it public also classified as good/high. This research was conducted customers banks Pekanbaru city. type quali...