Query-by-humming systems attempt to address the needs of the non-expert user, for whom the most natural query format – for the purposes of finding a tune, hook or melody of unk...
Scene analysis is a major aspect of perception and continues to challenge machine perception. This paper addresses the scene-analysis problem by integrating a primitive segmentatio...
This paper presents a Chinese word segmentation system that uses improved sourcechannel models of Chinese sentence generation. Chinese words are defined as one of the following fo...
One of the most elaborate and important tasks in biology is the functional annotation of genes. Biologists have developed standardized and structured vocabularies, called bio-onto...
This paper introduces a simple notion of layering as a tool for analyzing well-behaved runs of a given model of distributed computation. Using layering, a model-independent analysi...