Context awareness and context modeling have raised their call for attention and importance quite recently in the world of contact centers for better customer services and relation...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Abstract. We use a hierarchical Bayesian approach to model user preferences in different contexts or settings. Unlike many previous recommenders, our approach is content-based. We...
Skin detection or segmentation is employed in many tasks related to the detection and tracking of humans and human-body parts. However, skin detection is not robust enough for dea...
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...