Automatic identification of causal relations in text and their use for improving precision in information retrieval
Christopher Soo‐Guan Khoo · UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) · 1996
Parts of the thesis were published in: 1. Khoo, C., Myaeng, S.H., & Oddy, R. (2001). Using cause-effect relations in text to improve information retrieval precision. Information Processing and Management, 37(1), 119-145. 2. Khoo, C., Kornfilt, J., Oddy, R., & Myaeng, S.H. (1998). Automatic extraction of cause-effect information from newspaper text without knowledge-based inferencing. Literary & Linguistic Computing, 13(4), 177-186. 3. Khoo, C. (1997). The use of relation matching in information retrieval. LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal [Online], 7(2). Available at: http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre7n2/. An update of the literature review on causal relations in text was published in: Khoo, C., Chan, S., & Niu, Y. (2002). The many facets of the cause-effect relation. In R.Green, C.A. Bean & S.H. Myaeng (Eds.), The semantics of relationships: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 51-70). Dordrecht: Kluwer