Nowadays media companies have difficulties for managing large amounts of news from agencies and self-made articles. Journalists and documentalists must face categorization tasks every day. There is also an additional trouble due to the usual large size of the list of words in a thesaurus, the typical tool used to tag news in the media. In this paper, we present a new method to tackle the proble...

The sectional title industry has been a part of the property landscape in South Africa for almost half a century, and plays a significant role in addressing the housing problem in the country. Stakeholders such as owners and investors in sectional title property are in most cases not directly involved in the management thereof, and place reliance on the audited annual financial statements of bo...

Through a evaluation of system performance and user satisfaction for the Mercurio system a system that sends personalised news selections via email -, the general applicability and usefulness of different methods of specifying user interest (sections, categories and keywords) are considered for the general case of digital news services. The specific characteristics distinguishing such systems f...

A novel method to automatically associate ontological concepts to their realisations in texts is presented. The method has been developed in the context of the Papyrus project to annotate texts and audio transcripts with a set of relevant concepts from the Papyrus News Ontology. To avoid strong dependency on a specific ontology, the annotation process starts by performing a Wikipedia-based anno...

This research aims to examine the influence of mediating effect of corporate social responsibility on the relationship between consumer awareness of green marketing and purchase intentions in the retail setting. Data from 200 valid questionnaires was analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach for the analysis of structural equation models with SmartPLS computer program version 2.0 ...

Chinese entity relation extraction is a part of entity relation extraction. According to entity relation extraction technology and the features of Chinese news corpus, this paper proposes a novel method for Chinese entities relation extraction. The method, named WCORE (word co-occurrence relation extraction), first measures the semantic similarity by word co-occurrence and then adopts pattern m...