Given a large-scale linked document collection, such as a collection of blog posts or a research literature archive, there are two fundamental problems that have generated a lot o...
Advances in geographical information systems (GIS) and supporting data collection technology has resulted in the rapid collection of a huge amount of spatial data. However, known ...
The conditional distribution of a discrete variable y, given another discrete variable x, is often specified by assigning one multinomial distribution to each state of x. The cost...
Automatic segmentation is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, participants typically vocalize for only a ...
How can we get such reliable behavior from the mind when the brain is made up of such unreliable elements as neurons? We propose that the answer is related to the emergence of stab...