Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as community mi...
We present a system that tries to automatically collect and monitor Japanese blog collections that include not only ones made with blog softwares but also ones written as normal w...
We focus on the task of target detection in automatic link generation with Wikipedia, i.e., given an N-gram in a snippet of text, find the relevant Wikipedia concepts that explai...
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...