Nowadays, manufacturing companies have been working based on people-oriented approach. Customer satisfaction is currently not only for external customers but also required for internal customers. In this context, human resource is one of the most important resources to manage and vital for manufacturing companies in terms of customers, employees and managers. With this perception, The Human Res...

The management, economics, sociology, and psychology literatures describe a multitude of avenues through which organizations attempt to succeed. One of the most traveled of these is the management of human capital, which usually involves attempts to optimize the return on investments in the workforce. These returns are frequently examined in terms of employee job performance and voluntary turno...

A lot of concrete structures are deteriorating to dangerous levels throughout Japan. These concrete structures need to be inspected regularly to be sure that they are safe enough to be used. The inspection method of these concrete structures is typically the impact acoustic method. In the impact acoustic method the worker taps the concrete on the surface with hammer. So it is necessary to set u...

Evaluation of Learning-Based Approaches for Matching Web Data Entities Written by Administrator Thursday, 28 April 2011 10:56 ABSTRACT:Entity matching is a key task for data integration and especially challenging for web data. Effective entity matching typically requires the combination of several match techniques and finding suitable configuration parameters such as similarity thresholds. We i...

Previous work on relation extraction has focussed on identifying relationships between entities that occur in the same sentence (intra-sentential relations) rather than between entities in different sentences (inter-sentential relations) despite previous research having shown that intersentential relations commonly occur in information extraction corpora. This paper describes a SVM-based approa...

Evaluation of Learning-Based Approaches for Matching Web Data Entities Written by Administrator Thursday, 28 April 2011 10:56 ABSTRACT:Entity matching is a key task for data integration and especially challenging for web data. Effective entity matching typically requires the combination of several match techniques and finding suitable configuration parameters such as similarity thresholds. We i...

Negotiation and agreement generally require models of the peers who are involved in the negotiation. One typical area where negotiation takes place is in selling and retailing, which is also known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Customers and products are usually modelled using previous retailing experiences with similar or dissimilar customers and products. Machine learning is typic...

Research on the diffusion of organisational practices in multinational enterprises has focussed largely on manufacturing firms in economically developed countries. This paper explores the transfer of human resource management and customer service practices to China by Japanese multinational retail firms. Such firms face competing pressures, the imperative and potential advantages of implementin...

Kernel-based methods are widely used for relation extraction task and obtain good results by leveraging lexical and syntactic information. However, in biomedical domain these methods are limited by the size of dataset and have difficulty in coping with variations in text. To address this problem, we propose Extended Dependency Graph (EDG) by incorporating a few simple linguistic ideas and inclu...

Traditional relation extraction predicts relations within some fixed and finite target schema. Machine learning approaches to this task require either manual annotation or, in the case of distant supervision, existing structured sources of the same schema. The need for existing datasets can be avoided by using a universal schema: the union of all involved schemas (surface form predicates as in ...