The publication time of a page can have a big impact on its relevance to a query, especially for time-sensitive pages such as news items. For news search engines, the publication ...
Recent research has shown that speech can be sparsely represented using a dictionary of speech segments spanning multiple frames, exemplars, and that such a sparse representation ...
Abstract--Large-margin methods, such as support vector machines (SVMs), have been very successful in classification problems. Recently, maximum margin discriminant analysis (MMDA) ...
In this paper, we describe an approach for the automatic medical image annotation task of the 2009 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF). This work is focused o...
In this paper, we propose the "Democratic Classifier", a simple, democracy-inspired patternbased classification algorithm that uses very short patterns for classificatio...