Abstract. We propose a graph based method to improve the performance of person queries in large news video collections. The method benefits from the multi-modal structure of videos...
We tackle the problem of automatically detecting controversial issues and their subtopics from news articles. We define a controversial issue as a concept that invokes conflicting ...
Large speech and text corpora are crucial to the development of a state-of-the-art speech recognition system. This paper reports on the construction and evaluation of the first Th...
This paper describes the Norwegian broadcast news speech corpus RUNDKAST. The corpus contains recordings of approximately 77 hours of broadcast news shows from the Norwegian broad...
A medical news report was manipulated to project either Alabama or Texas as the target region for the outbreak of a new (fictitious) disease. Residents of Alabama and Texas respond...