The page rank of a commercial web site has an enormous economic impact because it directly influences the number of potential customers that find the site as a highly ranked sear...
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
We address the character identification problem in
movies and television videos: assigning names to faces on
the screen. Most prior work on person recognition in video
assumes s...
Timothee Cour, Benjamin Sapp, Akash Nagle, Ben Tas...
Hsu et al. (2009) recently proposed an efficient, accurate spectral learning algorithm for Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). In this paper we relax their assumptions and prove a tighte...
Classification has been commonly used in many data mining projects in the financial service industry. For instance, to predict collectability of accounts receivable, a binary clas...