Facial activities are the most natural and powerful means of human communication. Spontaneous facial activity is characterized by rigid head movements, non-rigid facial muscular m...
This paper presents the Topic-Aspect Model (TAM), a Bayesian mixture model which jointly discovers topics and aspects. We broadly define an aspect of a document as a characteristi...
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
This article goes to the foundations of Statistical Inference through a review of Carnap's logic theory of induction. From this point of view, it brings another solution to t...
A system that could automatically analyze the facial actions in real time have applications in a number of different fields. However, developing such a system is always a challeng...