We present BAYESUM (for "Bayesian summarization"), a model for sentence extraction in query-focused summarization. BAYESUM leverages the common case in which multiple do...
This paper contributes a general approach to characterizing patterns of change in a spatio-temporal database. While there is a particular interest in modelling and querying how sp...
Nassima Djafri, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
Abstract. Due to the lot of different Genetic Algorithm variants, encodings, and attacked problems, very little general theory is available to explain the internal functioning of ...
A variety of methods exist for extracting terms and relations between terms from a corpus, each of them having strengths and weaknesses. Rather than just using the joint results, ...