This paper describes an online handwritten Japanese character string recognition system based on conditional random fields, which integrates the information of character recogniti...
This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of data mining, question answering, and other information retrieval tasks. Documents often c...
David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce C...
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Generative topic models such as LDA are limited by their inability to utilize nontrivial input features to enhance their performance, and many topic models assume that topic assig...