This paper proposes a two-phase example-based machine translation methodology which develops translation templates from examples and then translates using template matching. This ...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Current mainstream Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) are based on the concept of selection, encapsulated in the definition of a fitness function. Besides selection, however, the natur...
For describing and analyzing digital images of paintings we propose a model to serve as the basis for an interactive image retrieval system. The model defines two types of feature...
Thomas E. Lombardi, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Charles C. Tapp...
Object segmentation needs to be driven by top-down knowledge to produce semantically meaningful results. In this paper, we propose a supervised segmentation approach that tightly ...