This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
After retrieval, this simple strategy yield to an important improvement of the average precision: from 17.02 up to 35.80. Task II. Our approach is based on argumentative structurin...
In many domains, we are interested in analyzing the structure of the underlying distribution, e.g., whether one variable is a direct parent of the other. Bayesian model selection a...
In the design of multimedia systems, one of the important issues is how to deal with "Kansei" of human beings. The concept of "Kansei" in Japanese includes sev...
With the growing importance of time series clustering research, particularly for similarity searches amongst long time series such as those arising in medicine or finance, it is cr...