: We describe methods for automatically identifying signature blocks and reply lines in plaintext email messages. This analysis has many potential applications, such as preprocessi...
We present an end-to-end system that extracts a user’s social network and its members’ contact information given the user’s email inbox. The system identifies unique people...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
In this paper, we propose the use of the Maximum Entropy approach for the task of automatic image annotation. Given labeled training data, Maximum Entropy is a statistical techniqu...
Abstract. The randomness of iris pattern makes it one of the most reliable biometric traits. On the other hand, the complex iris image structure and various sources of intra-class ...