Ranking blog posts that express opinions regarding a given topic should serve a critical function in helping users. We explored a couple of methods for opinion retrieval in the fr...
Speech synthesis by unit selection requires the segmentation of a large single speaker high quality recording. Automatic speech recognition techniques, e.g. Hidden Markov Models (...
Pierre Lanchantin, Andrew C. Morris, Xavier Rodet,...
Efficient processing of tera-scale text data is an important research topic. This paper proposes lossless compression of Ngram language models based on LOUDS, a succinct data stru...
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...
The method based on local features has an advantage that the important local motion feature is represented as bag-of-features, but lacks the location information. Additionally, in ...