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FGR
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Learning image alignment without local minima for face detection and tracking
Active Appearance Models (AAMs) have been extensively used for face alignment during the last 20 years. While AAMs have numerous advantages relative to alternate approaches, they ...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Fernando De la Torre
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
ICMLC
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Approaches to improving corpus quality for statistical machine translation
: The performance of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system heavily depends on the quantity and quality of the bilingual language resource. However, the pervious work mainl...
Peng Liu, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Transportability of Causal and Statistical Relations: A Formal Approach
We address the problem of transferring information learned from experiments to a different environment, in which only passive observations can be collected. We introduce a formal ...
Judea Pearl, Elias Bareinboim
ICDM
2006
IEEE
164views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Tree Alignment Models for Information Extraction
We propose an algorithm for extracting fields from HTML search results. The output of the algorithm is a database table– a data structure that better lends itself to high-level...
Philip Zigoris, Damian Eads, Yi Zhang