over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

In this paper we propose and evaluate a technique to perform semi-supervised learning for Text Categorization. In particular we defined a kernel function, namely the Domain Kernel, that allowed us to plug “external knowledge” into the supervised learning process. External knowledge is acquired from unlabeled data in a totally unsupervised way, and it is represented by means of Domain Models. We...

There has a large scale annotated newswire data for Chinese word segmentation. However, some research proves that the performance of the segmenter has significant decrease when applying the model trained on the newswire to other domain, such as patent and literature. The same character appeared in different words may be in different position and with different meaning. In this paper, we introdu...