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ACL
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Extraction and Approximation of Numerical Attributes from the Web
We present a novel framework for automated extraction and approximation of numerical object attributes such as height and weight from the Web. Given an object-attribute pair, we d...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
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CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Entity ranking using Wikipedia as a pivot
In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
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KDD
2012
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Learning from crowds in the presence of schools of thought
Crowdsourcing has recently become popular among machine learning researchers and social scientists as an effective way to collect large-scale experimental data from distributed w...
Yuandong Tian, Jun Zhu
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TSD
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
Gerasimos Xydas, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios...
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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua