With the rapid growth of the Internet and pervasive computing activities, the migration of back-end legacy systems to network centric environments has become a focal point for res...
Loop Calculus, introduced by Chertkov and Chernyak, is a new technique to incrementally improve approximations computed by Loopy Belief Propagation (LBP), with the ability to even...
In a (r, n)-threshold secret sharing scheme, no group of (r - 1) colluding members can recover the secret value s. However, the number of colluders is likely to increase over time...
We describe a new task-based corpus in the Spanish language. The corpus consists of videos, transcripts, and annotations of the interaction between a naive speaker and a confedera...
We present several improvements to unlexicalized parsing with hierarchically state-split PCFGs. First, we present a novel coarse-to-fine method in which a grammar’s own hierarc...