Automatic Construction of Cross-lingual Networks of Concepts from the Hong Kong SAR Police Department

Abstract. The tragic event of September 11 has prompted the rapid growth of attention of national security and criminal analysis. In the national security world, very large volumes of data and information are generated and gathered. Much of this data and information written in different languages and stored in different locations may be seemingly unconnected. Therefore, cross-lingual semantic interoperability is a major challenge to generate an overview of this disparate data and information so that it can be analysed, searched. The traditional information retrieval (IR) approaches normally require a document to share some keywords with the query. In reality, the users may use some keywords that are different from what used in the documents. There are then two different term spaces, one for the users, and another for the documents. The problem can be viewed as the creation of a thesaurus. The creation of such relationships would allow the system to match queries with relevant documents, even though they contain different terms. Apart from this, terrorists and criminals may communicate through letters, e-mails and faxes in languages other than English. The translation ambiguity significantly exacerbates the retrieval problem. To facilitate cross-lingual information retrieval, a corpusbased approach uses the term co-occurrence statistics in parallel or comparable corpora to construct a statistical translation model to cross the language boundary. However, collecting parallel corpora between European language and Oriental language is not an easy task due to the unique linguistics and grammar structures of oriental languages. In this paper, the text-based approach to align English/Chinese Hong Kong Police press release documents from the Web is first presented. This article then reports an algorithmic approach to generate a robust knowledge base based on statistical correlation analysis of the semantics (knowledge) embedded in the bilingual press release corpus. The research output consisted of a thesaurus-like, semantic network knowledge base, which can aid in semantics-based cross-lingual information management and retrieval

Media representation of landmarks and development of tourism: --the case of Victoria Harbour.

Tang, Ho Man.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-181).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.i論文摘要 --- p.ivAcknowledgement --- p.viTable of Contents --- p.viiChapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter Chapter Two: --- Literature Review and Methodologies --- p.13Chapter Chapter Three: --- The Accumulation of Landmarks --- p.29Chapter Chapter Four: --- Multiple Narratives for Tourism Promotion --- p.50Chapter Chapter Five: --- Multiple Layers of Touristic Landmarks --- p.78Chapter Chapter Six: --- Empty Space and Multiple Functions of Landmarks --- p.99Chapter Chapter Seven: --- Structuring Consumption at the Harbour City --- p.115Chapter Chapter Eight: --- Star Ferry and A Symphony of Lights --- p.142Chapter Chapter Nine: --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.158Bibliography --- p.17

Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010

This volume holds the papers from the 18th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK). This year the conference, hosted at University College London (UCL), from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 April 2010. The conference covered the areas of core geographic information science research as well as applications domains such as crime and health and technological developments in LBS and the geoweb. UCL’s research mission as a global university is based around a series of Grand Challenges that affect us all, and these were accommodated in GISRUK 2010. The overarching theme this year was “Global Challenges”, with specific focus on the following themes: * Crime and Place * Environmental Change * Intelligent Transport * Public Health and Epidemiology * Simulation and Modelling * London as a global city * The geoweb and neo-geography * Open GIS and Volunteered Geographic Information * Human-Computer Interaction and GIS Traditionally, GISRUK has provided a platform for early career researchers as well as those with a significant track record of achievement in the area. As such, the conference provides a welcome blend of innovative thinking and mature reflection. GISRUK is the premier academic GIS conference in the UK and we are keen to maintain its outstanding record of achievement in developing GIS in the UK and beyond

Natural Language Processing: Emerging Neural Approaches and Applications

This Special Issue highlights the most recent research being carried out in the NLP field to discuss relative open issues, with a particular focus on both emerging approaches for language learning, understanding, production, and grounding interactively or autonomously from data in cognitive and neural systems, as well as on their potential or real applications in different domains

Tracking the Temporal-Evolution of Supernova Bubbles in Numerical Simulations

The study of low-dimensional, noisy manifolds embedded in a higher dimensional space has been extremely useful in many applications, from the chemical analysis of multi-phase flows to simulations of galactic mergers. Building a probabilistic model of the manifolds has helped in describing their essential properties and how they vary in space. However, when the manifold is evolving through time, a joint spatio-temporal modelling is needed, in order to fully comprehend its nature. We propose a first-order Markovian process that propagates the spatial probabilistic model of a manifold at fixed time, to its adjacent temporal stages. The proposed methodology is demonstrated using a particle simulation of an interacting dwarf galaxy to describe the evolution of a cavity generated by a Supernov

Employees on social media: A multi-spokespeople model of CSR communication

Increasing societal and stakeholder expectations, along with easy access to information through social media, means corporations are asked for more information. The traditional approach to CSR communication, with corporations controlling what and how much to share with stakeholders has been restructured by social media, with stakeholders taking control. As legitimacy on social media is created through the positive and negative judgements of stakeholders, corporations must plan how to meet stakeholder demands for information effectively and legitimately, and this includes choosing appropriate spokespeople. Corporations in India have now turned towards their employees as CSR spokespeople. By encouraging employee activity on social media, these corporations are attempting to meet stakeholder demands and generate legitimacy through spokespeople whom stakeholders perceive as equals. This article examines that strategy and discusses its viability of using employees as spokespeople for CSR communication and engagement with stakeholder

Chinese Women and the Cyberspace

This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women-examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world. University of Hong Kong

Internationalizing "International Communication"

International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very “internationalized.” Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana’s notion of international communication. At stake is the “subject position” of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid “laws” of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of intellectual development are reckoning with the important dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication," Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of departure for internationalizing “international communication” must be precisely the opposite of parochialism – namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms, metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds

Exploring the Education of Hong Kong's Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Secondary Students

Hong Kong’s educational landscape has been shifting to include Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) students in public and government subsidized schools. Policies surrounding language of instruction, curricula and literacy practices have involved a negotiation of power, space, and belonging for Hong Kong’s NCS ethnic minority population. The thesis explores how secondary school is experienced by NCS students, facilitated by the teachers of NCS students, and designed by policy makers through the discourse of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau (EDB). By obtaining a post-structuralist theoretical framework (Foucault, 1980; Bourdieu, 1989, 1991; Bell & Russell, 2000; Robinson-Pant, 2001), and through in-depth interviews, and an analysis of the EDB’s printed materials this study suggests that 1) Non-Chinese Speaking students’ experiences of school do not align with the discourse of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau, and 2) that the experience of the category of “Non-Chinese Speaking” is problematic as it refers to much more than students’ Chinese language skills. The findings from this study suggest that the current practice of schooling NCS students requires a rethink, as the experience of the category of “Non-Chinese Speaking” leads students to develop ideas about their exclusion from the community, which directly impacts their ideas about what it means to be a citizen of Hong Kong

Reading Hong Kong Chinese culture: Hybridity or eclecticism, a matter of contemporary configuration

This thesis investigates the Cultural Studies paradigm \u27hybridity\u27 through an analysis of Hong Kong culture. In Cultural Studies, \u27hybridity\u27 is usually applied to cultures that have been influenced by another culture, resulting in a loss of identity, leading to a cultural mixture. As a former Colony comprising predominantly of a southern Chinese population, Hong Kong has been influenced by British culture. However, the question is whether Hong Kong culture has been \u27hybridises\u27, or, the Hong Kong people, in mastering two cultures, have become bicultural, and use their biculturalism bilaterally, as particular situations require. The study also researches the condition of Hong Kong culture when exported overseas through migration, and remigration, especially among Chinese. Other areas researched are Hong Kong culture\u27s relationship to identity and ethnicity through film and language. The primary research data is sourced from surveys and interviews with Hong Kong Chinese people in Australia and Hong Kong. Secondary sources include written media, computer generated media, film, and television. The research uses a multiple design format of field: historical; content analysis; textual analysis; forensic, and anecdotal material. The findings will show that Hong Kong culture is dominated by Chinese cultures rather than Western culture and as such may not be regarded as a \u27hybrid\u27 culture, but as a conglomerate of independently used cultures. My research findings challenge the validity of the Cultural Studies use of hybridity in association with colonialism, and opens the way for other cultures designated as \u27hybrid\u27 to be re-examined within a similar research framework to this study