We present a directed Markov random field (MRF) model that combines n-gram models, probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) fo...
Shaojun Wang, Shaomin Wang, Russell Greiner, Dale ...
Abstract--Statistical approaches to document content modeling typically focus either on broad topics or on discourselevel subtopics of a text. We present an analysis of the perform...
Leonhard Hennig, Thomas Strecker, Sascha Narr, Ern...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...
Given a set of images of scenes containing multiple object categories (e.g. grass, roads, buildings) our objective is to discover these objects in each image in an unsupervised man...
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...