Natural Language Processing and Text Mining

Contents 1 Overview Anne Kao and Stephen R. Poteet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews Ana-Maria Popescu and Oren Etzioni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Extracting Relations from Text: From Word Sequences to Dependency Paths Razvan C. Bunescu and Raymond J. Mooney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4 Mining Diagnostic Text Reports by Learning to Annotate Knowledge Roles Eni Mustafaraj, Martin Hoof, and Bernd Freisleben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5 A Case Study in Natural Language Based Web Search Giovanni Marchisio, Navdeep Dhillon, Jisheng Liang, Carsten Tusk, Krzysztof Koperski, Thien Nguyen, Dan White, and Lubos Pochman . . . . 69 6 Evaluating Self-Explanations in iSTART: Word Matching, Latent Semantic Analysis, and Topic Models Chutima Boonthum, Irwin B. Levinstein, and Danielle S. McNamara . . . 91 7 Textual Signatures: Identifying Text-Types Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Measure the Cohesion of Text Structures Philip M. McCarthy, Stephen W. Briner, Vasile Rus, and Danielle S. McNamara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 8 Automatic Document Separation: A Combination of Probabilistic Classification and Finite-State Sequence Modeling Mauritius A. R. Schmidtler, and Jan W. Amtrup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9 Evolving Explanatory Novel Patterns for Semantically- Based Text Mining John Atkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 10 Handling of Imbalanced Data in Text Classification: Category-Based Term Weights Ying Liu, Han Tong Loh, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, and Shu Beng Tor . . . . 171 11 Automatic Evaluation of Ontologies Janez Brank, Marko Grobelnik, and Dunja Mladeni´c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 12 Linguistic Computing with UNIX Tools Lothar M. Schmitt, Kiel Christianson, and Renu Gupta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259