Abstract. We describe Scusi?, a multi-stage, spoken language interpretation mechanism designed to be part of a robot-mounted dialogue system. Scusi?’s interpretation process maps...
Constructing tractable dependent probability distributions over structured continuous random vectors is a central problem in statistics and machine learning. It has proven diffic...
Ranking for multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) is a task to rank documents of different languages solely based on their relevancy to the query regardless of query’s langu...
Tag recommendation is the task of predicting a personalized list of tags for a user given an item. This is important for many websites with tagging capabilities like last.fm or de...
: We study a random graph model which is a superposition of bond percolation on Zd with parameter p, and a classical random graph G(n, c/n). We show that this model, being a homoge...