KMi Seminars
ESpotter: A Domain and User Adaptation Approach for Named Entity Recognition on the Web
This event took place on Monday 14 June 2004 at 12:30

 
Jianhan Zhu

Named entity recognition (NER) systems are commonly designed with a "one-size-fits-all" philosophy. Lexicons and patterns manually crafted or learned from a training set of documents are applied to any other document without taking into account its background and user needs. However, when applying NER to Web pages, due to the diversity of these Web pages and user needs, one size frequently does not fit all. In this talk, I present a system called ESpotter, which improves NER on the Web by adapting lexicons and patterns to domains on the Web and user preferences. My results show that ESpotteqr provides more accurate and efficient NER on Web pages from various domains than current NER systems. ESpotter is implemented as a browser plug-in to help solve the information overload problem on the Web by discovering relevant information on user's behalf. Further work of integrating ESpotter with ontology based semantic browsing tool, Magpie, and the KMi semantic Web site are explored.

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Narrative Hypermedia is...


Narrative Hypermedia
Narrative is concerned fundamentally with coherence, for instance, whether that be a fiction, an historical account or an argument, none of which 'make sense' unless they are put together in a coherent manner.

Hypermedia is the combination of hypertext for linking and structuring multimedia information.

Narrative Hypermedia is therefore concerned with how all of the above narrative forms, plus the many other diverse forms of discourse possible on the Web, can be effectively designed to communicate coherent conceptual structures, drawing inspiration from theories in narratology, semiotics, psycholinguistics and film.