Named entity translation plays an important role in many applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. In this paper, we focus on translating person names, the most common type of name entity in Korean-Chinese cross language information retrieval (KCIR). Unlike other languages, Chinese uses characters (ideographs), which makes person name translation difficult because one...

This article investigates the relationship between Inter-Korean geopolitical risk (IKGPR) and South Korean firms’ risk-taking in context of highly political tensions peninsula. Using a recently developed news-based index risk, our empirical analysis shows an inverse U-shaped IKGPR firm Korea, implying that increases with when is low but becomes prudent high. Such effect on weaker for firms surv...

Purpose: News media play an important role in attitude towards various issues including hijab and hijab discovery. As a result, the purpose of this research was comparative review of hijab discovery news coverage in news media. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research population was the hijab discovery news in ...

Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a ‘wordpair’. Three wordpair sets, manual wordpairs extraction (ME), manual wordpairs addition (MA), and a...

This study shows how online discussions develop in stages by analyzing the relationships among comments, responses, and replies Korean News portal sites. Based on Habermas’ public sphere theory, we separate into three use those to examine whether people engage rational deliberation discussion contexts. Specifically, hypotheses about probability that comments receive responses from others. We co...

As history demonstrates, the challenge of leading a multinational coalition force or military alliance is not new (Plante, 1998). In fact, it may be as old as war itself. From the time of Troy to the Crusades to the Thirty Years Wars, from the Napoleonic Wars to the alliances of World Wars I and II, and from the Korean conflict to the “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan, nations have associa...

UC Berkeley participated in the pivot bilingual task of the CLIR track at NTCIR Workshop 4. Our focus was on Chinese and Korean searches against the Japanese News document collection, using English as a pivot language. For comparison of our pivot techniques, we submitted Japanese monolingual and English Japanese bilingual search rankings as well. Two different commercial translation software pa...

This paper examines Koreans’ protests against U.S. beef imports by deconstructing online dynamics of news diffusion using data comprised of widely read blog entries created by Daum blog reporters between May and June 2008. The results indicate that Korean bloggers’ political positions on U.S. beef imports were polarized, which ultimately influenced their network positions and the way news was d...

l. Introduction In 1984 Fujitsu marketed the automatic machine translation systems, ATLAS-I and ATLAS II. ATLAS-I was the world's first commercial Eng1ish-Japanese translation system. Fujitsu is also conducting a joint project on research and development of a Japanese-Korean machine translation system in cooperation with Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. ATLAS II aims at achi...