In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
In this work, we present a new semantic language modeling approach to model news stories in the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) task. In the new approach, we build a unigram la...
To understand a speaker’s turn of a conversation, one needs to segment it into intonational phrases, clean up any speech repairs that might have occurred, and identify discourse...
Abstract--Model checkers for concurrent probabilistic systems have become very popular within the last decade. The study of long-run average behavior has however received only scan...
We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from databases containing articulated 3D models. Each shape is represented by the eigenvectors of an appropriately defined affin...