It is important for future NLP systems to formulate the semantic equivalence (and more generally, the semantic similarity) of natural language expressions. In particular, paraphra...
In today’s global village, it is critical that the key information tools, such as web search engines, e-Commerce portals and e-Governance, work across multiple natural languages,...
As the Web provides rich data embedded in the immense contents inside pages, we witness many ad-hoc efforts for exploiting fine granularity information across Web text, such as We...
The traditional query languages used in database management systems require precise and unambiguous queries only. Fuzzy querying were introduced to relax this rigidity and allow t...
In a video database, large amount of information involving video, audio, and/or images needs to be stored and managed. Therefore, there is an important need for novel techniques a...