This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
The National Cancer Institute has collected a large database of digitized 35mm slides of the uterine cervix, the idea being to build a system enabling to study the evolution of le...
York University participated in the TREC 2008 Blog track, by introducing two opinion finding features. By initially focusing solely on the sentiment terms found in a document, usi...
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
We present a method for video classification based on information in the soundtrack. Unlike previous approaches which describe the audio via statistics of mel-frequency cepstral ...
Courtenay V. Cotton, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Alexander...