The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...
Textual Entailment recognition is a very difficult task as it is one of the fundamental problems in any semantic theory of natural language. As in many other NLP tasks, Machine Lea...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabio ...
With the proliferation of XML as the lingua franca of internet information exchange, engineering XML documents and maintaining their databases becomes a major challenge. In this c...
Approximate MAP inference in graphical models is an important and challenging problem for many domains including computer vision, computational biology and natural language unders...