We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
We present a novel extension to Independent Component Analysis (ICA), where the data is generated as the product of two submodels, each of which follow an ICA model, and which comb...
In recent years, corporate governance has become a more and more important concern in investment decision-making. As one of the most important factors in evaluating corporate gove...
Capturing knowledge from free-form evaluative texts about an entity is a challenging task. New techniques of feature extraction, polarity determination and strength evaluation hav...
With the rapid explosion of video data, compact representation of videos is becoming more and more desirable for efficient browsing and communication, which leads to a number of r...