During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...
This paper presents Scan-SLAM, a new generalisation of simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). SLAM implementations based on extended Kalman filter (EKF) data fusion have t...
We present a passage relevance model for integrating syntactic and semantic evidence of biomedical concepts and topics using a probabilistic graphical model. Component models of t...
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
We extend a recently developed method [1] for learning the semantics of image databases using text and pictures. We incorporate statistical natural language processing in order to...