We propose a novel approach to find aliases of a given name from the web. We exploit a set of known names and their aliases as training data and extract lexical patterns that conv...
—This paper introduces HOpiPn, the higher-order pi-calculus with passivation and name creation, and develops an equivalence theory for this calculus. Passivation [Schmitt and Ste...
In this paper, we present a general framework for image restoration; despite its simplicity, certain variational and certain wavelet approaches can be formulated within this framew...
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...