A Focused crawler must use information gleaned from previously crawled page sequences to estimate the relevance of a newly seen URL. Therefore, good performance depends on powerfu...
Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Jeannette Janssen
This paper breaks with the common practice of using a joint state space representation and performing the joint data association in multi-object tracking. Instead, we present an i...
Many NLP tasks rely on accurately estimating word dependency probabilities P(w1|w2), where the words w1 and w2 have a particular relationship (such as verb-object). Because of the...
Kristina Toutanova, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew...
We propose a novel way to induce a random field from an energy function on discrete labels. It amounts to locally injecting noise to the energy potentials, followed by finding t...
— This paper describes a Markov random field (MRF) model with weighting parameters optimized by conditional random field (CRF) for on-line recognition of handwritten Japanese cha...