Examples of figurative language can range from the explicit and the obvious to the implicit and downright enigmatic. Some simpler forms, like simile, often wear their meanings on...
We consider the problem of multi-task learning, that is, learning multiple related functions. Our approach is based on a hierarchical Bayesian framework, that exploits the equival...
In this paper we propose PARTfs which adopts a supervised machine learning algorithm, namely partial decision trees, as a method for feature subset selection. In particular, it is...
This paper presents two different approaches to automatic captioning of geo-tagged images by summarizing multiple web-documents that contain information related to an image’s lo...
In this paper we present a novel instance pruning technique for Information Extraction (IE). In particular, our technique filters out uninformative words from texts on the basis o...