Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Abstract. The fashion, textile, and clothing industry is a main constituent in Hong Kong. In this industry, handling a large amount of images is an important task in various phases...
We have recently presented CarpeDiem, an algorithm that can be used for speeding up the evaluation of Supervised Sequential Learning (SSL) classifiers. CarpeDiem provides impress...
This paper presents Japanese morphological analysis based on conditional random fields (CRFs). Previous work in CRFs assumed that observation sequence (word) boundaries were fixed...
This paper presents a new method for evaluating boolean set operations between Binary Space Partition (BSP) trees. Our algorithm has many desirable features including both numeric...