The growing availability of on-line textual sources and the potential number of applications of knowledge acquisition from textual data has lead to an increase in Information Extr...
Annotating training data for event extraction is tedious and labor-intensive. Most current event extraction tasks rely on hundreds of annotated documents, but this is often not en...
A key challenge in applying kernel-based methods for discriminative learning is to identify a suitable kernel given a problem domain. Many methods instead transform the input data...
This paper addresses the application of active contours or snakes for location and tracking of facial features. Conventional snake approaches find the position of the snake by fin...
In this paper we address the problem of extracting key pieces of information from voicemail messages, such as the identity and phone number of the caller. This task differs from t...