Assessing the similarity between objects is a prerequisite for many data mining techniques. This paper introduces a novel approach to learn distance functions that maximizes the c...
Christoph F. Eick, Alain Rouhana, Abraham Bagherje...
This paper describes a discussion-bot that provides answers to students’ discussion board questions in an unobtrusive and humanlike way. Using information retrieval and natural ...
Donghui Feng, Erin Shaw, Jihie Kim, Eduard H. Hovy
Automatic facial feature localization has been a longstanding challenge in the field of computer vision for several decades. This can be explained by the large variation a face i...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Joan Perez, Fernando De la Torre
Mining bilingual data (including bilingual sentences and terms1 ) from the Web can benefit many NLP applications, such as machine translation and cross language information retrie...
Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, ...
Statistical machine learning techniques for data classification usually assume that all entities are i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed). However, real-world entities...