This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
In biomedical articles, terms with the same surface forms are often used to refer to different entities across a number of model organisms, in which case determining the species b...
Research on auto-harmonizing a melody (e.g. Chinese folksong) with piano accompaniment is trying to build up a computer system which generates a 3voice music including piano left-...
Semi-structured data such as XML and HTML is attracting considerable attention. It is important to develop various kinds of data mining techniques that can handle semistructured d...
We face the problem of novelty detection from stream data, that is, the identification of new or unknown situations in an ordered sequence of objects which arrive on-line, at cons...