In this paper, we describe an approach based on off-the-shelf parsers and semantic resources for the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge that can be generally applied t...
Distributional similarity methods have proven to be a valuable tool for the induction of semantic similarity. Up till now, most algorithms use two-way cooccurrence data to compute...
Explaining how the meaning of words relate to the meaning of the utterance in which they are used is of utmost importance. The most common approaches view the meaning of an uttera...
Illumination changes cause object appearance to change drastically and many existing tracking algorithms lack the capability to handle this problem. The Earth Mover's Distanc...
Objects in the world can be arranged into a hierarchy based on their semantic meaning (e.g. organism ? animal ? feline ? cat). What about defining a hierarchy based on the visual ...
Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Andrew Zisserman, W...