Multi-lingual Analysis of Future-Related Information on the Web

Author

Jatowt, Adam ; Kawai, Hiroyuki ; Kanazawa, Kenji ; Tanaka, Kiyoshi ; Kunieda, Kazuo ; Yamada, Koji

Author_Institution

Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Future prediction is one of the crucial activities of humans. In this paper, we report the results of exploratory analysis of future-related information on the Web in three different languages: English, Japanese and Polish. We focus on the future-related information which is grounded in time, that is, the information on events whose expected occurrence dates are already known. Our datasets are constructed by crawling search engine indices. We investigate multiple aspects of future-related information in web pages across different languages such as its amount, time span, topics, associated sentiment levels as well as the relation to the future-related content in news articles.

Keywords

Web sites; information retrieval; natural language processing; search engines; text analysis; English; Japanese; Polish; Web page; crawling search engine indices; future related information prediction; multilingual analysis; news article; Forecasting; Market research; Meteorology; Search engines; Sociology; Statistics; Web pages; collective predictions; future-related information; multi-lingual analysis; opinion analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Culture and Computing (Culture Computing), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CultureComputing.2013.13

Filename

6680326