A Novel Web-Oriented Writing Environment Using Objects' Facts Acquired from the Web
Naoki Yoshinaga, Kazumasa Nakamura, Kentaro Torisawa · 2007
This paper presents a novel web-oriented writing envi-ronment that helps users describe their opinions on top-ics/events through weblogs, by showing facts related to the objects. Our writing environment automatically recog-nizes information needs for facts on aspects (e.g., “opening hours”) of the objects (e.g., “J’s cafe”) by applying lexico-syntactic patterns to the snapshots of users ’ writings. It then attempts to extract facts that satisfy the information needs from the Web, and shows the extracted facts (e.g., “open-ing hours”-“10am-8:30pm”) to the users. The users can thus refer to necessary facts without searching the web by themselves. We realized this environment for Japanese on a browser with AJAX, and evaluated how much useful infor-mation could be provided by our environment. 1.