Abstract. This paper presents our recent work on period disambiguation, the kernel problem in sentence boundary identification, with the maximum entropy (Maxent) model. A number o...
Due to the globalization on the Web, many companies and institutions need to efficiently organize and search repositories containing multilingual documents. The management of the...
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
The goal of our work is object categorization in real-world scenes. That is, given a novel image we want to recognize and localize unseen-before objects based on their similarity t...
With the increasing use of web services, many new challenges concerning data security are becoming critical. Data or applications can now be outsourced to powerful remote servers, ...