We present a three-step post-processing method for increasing the precision of video shot labels in the domain of television news. First, we demonstrate that news shot sequences c...
The paper describes the first version of the TextMOLE (Text Mining Operations Library and Environment) system for textual data mining. Currently TextMOLE acts as an advanced inde...
This paper investigates a novel model-free reinforcement learning architecture, the Natural Actor-Critic. The actor updates are based on stochastic policy gradients employing Amari...
Abstract. Analysis of queries posed to open-domain question-answering systems indicates that particular types of queries are dominant, e.g., queries about the identity of people, a...
Abstract. In this paper we show a novel application of string kernels: that is to the problem of recognising famous pianists from their style of playing. The characterstics of perf...
Craig Saunders, David R. Hardoon, John Shawe-Taylo...