Spartan Daily, May 5, 2016

Volume 146, Issue 39https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2016/1037/thumbnail.jp

A Novel ILP Framework for Summarizing Content with High Lexical Variety

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the student responses to post-class reflective questions, product reviews, and news articles published by different news agencies related to the same events. High lexical diversity of these documents hinders the system's ability to effectively identify salient content and reduce summary redundancy. In this paper, we overcome this issue by introducing an integer linear programming-based summarization framework. It incorporates a low-rank approximation to the sentence-word co-occurrence matrix to intrinsically group semantically-similar lexical items. We conduct extensive experiments on datasets of student responses, product reviews, and news documents. Our approach compares favorably to a number of extractive baselines as well as a neural abstractive summarization system. The paper finally sheds light on when and why the proposed framework is effective at summarizing content with high lexical variety.Comment: Accepted for publication in the journal of Natural Language Engineering, 201

Spartan Daily, February 9, 1981

Volume 76, Issue 11https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6715/thumbnail.jp

The Santa Clara, 2018-04-05

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The Cowl - v. 84 - n. 16 - Feb 13, 2020

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 84 - Number 16 - February 13, 2020. 39 pages

The Santa Clara, 2018-04-05

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The Santa Clara, 2018-04-05

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Performance Anxiety: Copyright Embodied and Disembodied

The primary economic and cultural significance of copyright today comes from works and rights that weren’t contemplated by the Framers of the Constitution’s Copyright Clause. Performance—both as protected work and as right—is where much of copyright’s expansion has had its greatest impact, as new technologies have made it possible to fix performances in records and films and as cultural change has propelled recorded music and audiovisual works to the forefront of the copyright industries. Yet copyright has never fully conceptualized performance, and this has led to persistent confusion about what copyright protects. One key problem of performance from copyright’s perspective is how to identify the creative elements that make a work of performance original and protectable, as distinguished from elements that make it a work (a fixed artifact). A major variant of this question involves authorship: who is sufficiently responsible for a work of performance to be deemed its author, and thus its default owner? In a world where works require dozens and even hundreds of people to complete them, this question will often be difficult to answer while both respecting creativity and recognizing economic imperatives. Another set of questions involves whether there are ways to recognize performers’ creative contributions without contributing to copyright’s bloat, and how to assess claims of infringement in a performance context when the alleged copying isn’t exact. This article addresses these puzzles of performance, arguing that manageability rather than creativity is generally the basis for the rights allocations and distinctions copyright law makes. The recent controversy over the film Innocence of Muslims, along with other instances in which subjects of audiovisual works claimed copyright in those works, demonstrate the limited role played by creativity in copyright law

Through Our Own Eyes: Making Movies with Japanese American Home Movies

Ishizuka talks about her experience in recycling home movies shot by American Japonese for contemporary documentaries. Published in Spanish as: “A través de nuestros propios ojos. El cine realizado con metraje doméstico japonés-americano”, in the book "La casa abierta. El cine doméstico y sus reciclajes contemporáneos"

Spartan Daily, March 4, 2015

Volume 144, Issue 17https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/2109/thumbnail.jp