Having seen a news title "Alba denies wedding reports", how do we infer that it is primarily about Jessica Alba, rather than about weddings or reports? We probably reali...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Nowadays many data mining/analysis applications use the graph analysis techniques for decision making. Many of these techniques are based on the importance of relationships among t...
Rabia Nuray-Turan, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad M...
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
In this paper, we present new probabilistic models for identifying bird species from audio recordings. We introduce the independent syllable model and consider two ways of aggregat...