Structuring of information proceeds through the foregrounding of certain parts of the information. In general, foregrounding can be realized on various linguistic levels and it is...
With the exponential growth of Web 2.0 applications, tags have been used extensively to describe the image contents on the Web. Due to the noisy and sparse nature in the human gene...
We consider the problem of improving named entity recognition (NER) systems by using external dictionaries--more specifically, the problem of extending state-of-the-art NER system...
We live in the information age, where the amount of data readily available already overwhelms our capacity to analyze and absorb it without help from our machines. In particular, ...
Libraries have traditionally used manual image annotation for indexing and then later retrieving their image collections. However, manual image annotation is an expensive and labo...