Abstract. We introduce a new framework for feature grouping based on factor graphs, which are graphical models that encode interactions among arbitrary numbers of random variables....
This work proposes a new approach to the retrieval of images from text queries. Contrasting with previous work, this method relies on a discriminative model: the parameters are sel...
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...
This paper presents a summarization model based on the Universal Networking Language (UNL), which is a conceptual language for representing texts sentence by sentence, using seman...
Camilla Brandel Martins, Lucia Helena Machado Rino
This paper presents a probabilistic model for resolution of non-pronominal anaphora in biomedical texts. The model seeks to find the antecedents of anaphoric expressions, both cor...