Abstract. We propose a learning approach for integrating formal knowledge into statistical inference by exploiting ontologies as a semantically rich and fully formal representation...
Eye gaze and gesture form key conversational grounding cues that are used extensively in face-to-face interaction among people. To accurately recognize visual feedback during inter...
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has shown encouraging performance for the problem of unsupervised image automatic annotation. LSA conducts annotation by keywords propagation on a l...
We describe a class of causal, discrete latent variable models called Multiple Multiplicative Factor models (MMFs). A data vector is represented in the latent space as a vector of...
The aim of this article is to help a teacher to evaluate his courses by following the students during the learning phase. We asume that the teacher doesn't use an educational...