Techniques for plan recognition under uncertainty require a stochastic model of the plangeneration process. We introduce probabilistic state-dependent grammars (PSDGs) to represen...
In this paper, a novel two-tier Bayesian based method is proposed for hair segmentation. In the first tier, we construct a Bayesian model by integrating hair occurrence prior prob...
Dan Wang, Shiguang Shan, Wei Zeng, Hongming Zhang,...
The ability to model changes in preferences is crucially important for sound decision making and effective communication. Much has been written about strategies for changing belie...
Topical blog post retrieval is the task of ranking blog posts with respect to their relevance for a given topic. To improve topical blog post retrieval we incorporate textual cred...
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...