The increasing availability of massive information on the Web causes the need for information aggregation by filtering and ranking according to user's goals. In the last years...
Hong Linh Truong, Marco Comerio, Andrea Maurino, S...
This paper introduces a new process, environment matting, which captures not just a foreground object and its traditional opacity matte from a real-world scene, but also a descrip...
Douglas E. Zongker, Dawn M. Werner, Brian Curless,...
We introduce a finer concept of a Hardware Machine, where the set of post-reboot operation states is explicitly a part of the FSM definition. We formalize an ad-hoc flow of combin...
Zurab Khasidashvili, Marcelo Skaba, Daher Kaiss, Z...
Maximum likelihood estimators are often of limited practical use due to the intensive computation they require. We propose a family of alternative estimators that maximize a stoch...
Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semant...