In this paper, the performance of the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) vs χ2 distance as histogram similarity metrics for image retrieval is evaluated experimentally. Ground truth ...
Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semant...
In this paper we present a parameter optimisation procedure that is designed to automatically initialise the number of clusters and the initial colour prototypes required by data ...
Many applications require that large amounts of data are deleted from the database ? typically, such bulk deletes are carried out periodically and involve old or out-of-date data....
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a fully distributed directory service for Farsite, a logically centralized file system that is physically implemented on a...