There is currently much interest in the organization and content-based querying image databases. The usual hypothesis is that image similarity can be characterized evel features, ...
This paper finds and analyzes a formula for the total variation distance between iterations of riffle shuffles and iterations of "cut and then riffle shuffle". This allo...
Semantic similarity between words or phrases is frequently used to find matching correlations between search queries and documents when straightforward matching of terms fails. Th...
It has been postulated that existing species have been linked in the past in a way that can be described using an additive tree structure. Any such tree structure reflecting speci...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...