The problem of transfer learning, where information gained in one learning task is used to improve performance in another related task, is an important new area of research. While...
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
Sentiment classification refers to the task of automatically identifying whether a given piece of text expresses positive or negative opinion towards a subject at hand. The prolif...
As the World Wide Web in China grows rapidly, mining knowledge in Chinese Web pages becomes more and more important. Mining Web information usually relies on the machine learning ...
Most algorithms for extracting illuminant chromaticity from arbitrary images, such as the images found on the web, are based on machine learning techniques. We will show how a phy...