bourdieu had the help of two concepts of “habitus” and “field” to explain his theory and to show social distinctions, he argues that the social world is made up of different fields. each field has its own certain habitus and they can change depending on the field`s change. he believes that modern world is based on distinction. this distinction is clear in structural concepts such as space, clas...

This paper presents a maximum entropy models based approach to punctuation prediction and correction for Chinese opinionated texts. This study involves three parts. First, we conduct a survey of punctuation errors in Chinese opinionated texts based on a corpus of online product reviews. Then, we propose a maximum entropy sequence labeling approach to Chinese punctuation prediction. Finally, we ...

In this paper, we report on the usage of Japanese segmented texts and analyze the submitted search results to NTCIR Workshop 2, which used these texts. In these texts, each sentence is segmented into terms and term components (similar to phrases and words). However, the sizes of terms are inconsistent in the texts; e.g., some terms that should be decomposed into term components remain as terms....

For low-resource languages like Uyghur, data sparseness is always a serious problem in related information processing, especially in some tasks based on parallel texts. To enrich bilingual resources, we detect Chinese and Russian loan words from Uyghur texts according to phonetic similarities between a loan word and its corresponding donor language word. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...