With the approach of critical linguistics, the study compares and contrasts the personage description in Hong Kong and Mainland China entertainment news discourse. Examining the texts of the news reports against the different social contexts they were produced, the study establishes three contrastive parameters that characterize the personage reporting across the two regions: contrast in narrat...

We have been working on speech retrieval based on Cantonese television news programs. Our video archive contains over 20 hours of news programs provided by a local television station. These programs have been hand-segmented into video clips, where each clip is a self-contained news story. The audio tracks in our archive are indexed by Cantonese speech recognition. This is integrated with a vect...

Due to the fast delivery of news articles by news providers on the Internet and/or via news datafeeds, it becomes an important research issue of predicting the risk of stocks by utilizing such textual information available in addition to the time series information. In the literature, the issue of predicting stock price up/down trend based on news articles has been studied. In this paper, we st...

This paper presents a project to align and match English-Chinese bilingual news files downloaded from China News Service’s website. The work involves the alignment of bilingual texts at the sentence and clause levels. It addition, the work also requires matching of files as the English and Chinese news files downloaded from the web do not come in the same sequential order. These news files have...

Besides a clear research and archive focus electronic publishing technologies become increasingly important to business application domains to improve the service values for their end users and customers. The specific domains news publishing and news distribution are facing significant performance requirements in information handling while transferring hundreds of thousands of articles daily to...

Automatic detection of linguistic negation in free text is a demanding need for many text processing applications including Sentiment Analysis. Our system uses online news archives from two different resources namely NDTV and The Hindu. While dealing with news articles, we performed three subtasks namely identifying the target; separation of good and bad news content from the good and bad senti...

Promoting the development of renewable energies and the efficient and intelligent use of energy could be achieved through making adaptive consumer demands to energy supply. In this paper, we propose a mechanism based on three time scales, year, day and hour and three sets of agents, consumers, aggregators and providers to adapt consumption to production. We propose to use in this model the brea...