Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) tasks are evaluated using a cost function. The standard TDT cost function assumes a constant probability of relevance P(rel) across all topics. ...
Robots for elderly have drawn a great deal of attention as it is a controversial topic being pushed forward by the fact that there will be a dramatic increase of elderly in most we...
Substantial research effort has been invested in recent decades into the computational study and automatic processing of multi-party conversation. While most aspects of conversati...
Streaming user-generated content in the form of blogs, microblogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites, provides a rich source of data from which invaluable information and insig...
In this paper, we propose a system called kMedia that can assist users to form knowledge for community by showing shared topics networks (STN) among them. One of the important aspe...