This paper describes a language-independent, scalable system for both challenges of crossdocument co-reference: name variation and entity disambiguation. We provide system results...
We introduce a novel Bayesian framework for hybrid community discovery in graphs. Our framework, HCDF (short for Hybrid Community Discovery Framework), can effectively incorporate...
Keith Henderson, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Spiros Papadimi...
Human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and time-consuming. We explore the use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk syst...
Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky, Andr...
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer...
Acquired data often provides the best knowledge of a material’s bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). Its integration into most real-time rendering systems re...