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TEXT UNDERSTANDING VIA SEMANTIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
by
Namhee Kwon
Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Ful¯llment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMPUTER SCIENCE)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Namhee Kwon
Object Description
| Title | Text understadning via semantic structure analysis |
| Author | Kwon, Namhee |
| Author email | nkwon@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Computer Science |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-12 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hovy, Eduard |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McLeod, Dennis Hobbs, Jerry Goodnight, Thomas |
| Abstract | To understand and manage large collections of documents about the same topic, people have to interpret various aspects/levels of information simultaneously and integrate them to achieve a coherent overall picture. To support these diverse tasks, we need tools to extract the "important" information and combine the extracted information to a coherent overview. There exists substantial need for overview corpus analysis of large document sets in a variety ofapplications, including discussion, political debate, or public comment. Most of these applications exhibit tight causal and/or hierarchical relations among and within the texts, so that structureanalysis plays an important role in document understanding. This kind of text also frequently contains subjective, opinionated, and biased language, necessitating opinion analysis and clustering.; Prior research has addressed many of these topics, but never together. In this work, we focus on the semantic structure of sentences and discourses to identify "important" information toachieve balanced extraction and find inter-relations between information units. We apply a domain-independent sentence structure analysis based on frame semantics, and provide a discourse-level structure analysis for subjective or argumentative texts. By integrating all this analysis, we provide a novel approach to identifying frame and argument structures, classifying arguments, and integrating the structure for the whole data collection.; Each structure identification and classification module separately shows substantial improvement over the baseline, and the integration module shows the value of utilizing the individual analyses to automatically build a visual and categorized summary of the large document collection. This work points the way to future multifaceted text collection analysis technology that will be required to assist people managing increasingly large and diversified sets of documents. |
| Keyword | natural language processing; machine learning; semantic structure; discourse structure; semantic frames |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m948 |
| Rights | Kwon, Namhee |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kwon-20071128 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Kwon-20071128.pdf |
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| Full text | TEXT UNDERSTANDING VIA SEMANTIC STRUCTURE ANALYSIS by Namhee Kwon Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful¯llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Namhee Kwon |
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