We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
Business protocols are becoming a necessary part of Web services description [4]. The work presented in [4] investigates mechanisms for analyzing the compatibility and the substit...
In this paper, a new threshold correction method for document image binarization that is forcused on ruled-line extraction is presented. This method enhances the binary image of a...
Code-switching is an interesting linguistic phenomenon commonly observed in highly bilingual communities. It consists of mixing languages in the same conversational event. This pa...
We show how structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology and in particular be queried and updated using database languages. We introduce the notio...