This paper investigates the feasibility of evolutionary search techniques as a mechanism for interactively exploring the design space of 2D painterly renderings. Although a growing...
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
This paper presents an unsupervised segmentation method for feature sequences based on competitivelearning hidden Markov models. Models associated with the nodes of the Self-Organ...
Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for any spoken language system. We present a framework to ...
There is an increasingly pressing need to develop document analysis methods that are able to cope with images of documents containing printed regions of complex shapes. Contrary t...