We present an approach to ontology population based on a lexical substitution technique. It consists in estimating the plausibility of sentences where the named entity to be class...
The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sources containing such opinions, e.g., product reviews, forums, discussion grou...
The benefits of modular representations arc well known from many areas of computer science. In this paper, we concentrate on the benefits of modular ontologies with respect to loc...
Automatic generation of text summaries for spoken language faces the problem of containing incorrect words and passages due to speech recognition errors. This paper describes comp...
We tackle the problem of object recognition using a Bayesian approach. A marked point process [1] is used as a prior model for the (unknown number of) objects. A sample is generat...