Ensemble methods are learning algorithms that construct a set of classi ers and then classify new data points by taking a (weighted) vote of their predictions. The original ensembl...
This paper proposes a knowledge representation model and a logic proving setting with axioms on demand successfully used for recognizing textual entailments. It also details a lex...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Abstract. Foreground and background segmentation is a typical problem in computer vision and medical imaging. In this paper, we propose a new learning based approach for 3D segment...
We describe a method for automatically and adaptively boosting the visibility of local features in an image. A log intensity image is first decomposed into a set of subbands at mu...