We introduce a new type of graphical model called a `cumulative distribution network' (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. ...
In this paper, we describe an empirical study of Chinese chunking on a corpus, which is extracted from UPENN Chinese Treebank-4 (CTB4). First, we compare the performance of the st...
Visualization research seeks to exploit the human user’s ability to interpret graphical representations of data in order to provide insight into properties of the data that may ...
In this paper, we report our experiments on the HARD (High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents) Track in TREC 2003. We focus on active feedback, i.e., how to intelligently propose q...
We present a noun chunker for German which is based on a head-lexicalised probabilistic contextfl'ee grammar. A manually developed grammar was semi-automatically extended wit...