Creating a robust image classification system depends on having enough data with which one can adequately train and validate the model. If there is not enough available data, this...
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
This report describes Dartmouth College’s approach and results for the 2007 TREC Legal Track. Our original plan was to use the Combination of Expert Opinion (CEO) algorithm [1],...
Two long-open problems have been solved: (1) every sufficiently large planar point set in general position contains the vertices of an empty hexagon; (2) every finite collection o...
In this paper, we introduce a technique for applying Independent Component Analysis to vector space representations of software code fragments such as methods or blocks. The dista...