Statistical approaches to language learning typically focus on either short-range syntactic dependencies or long-range semantic dependencies between words. We present a generative...
Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Steyvers, David M. Blei,...
Data sparseness is an ever dominating problem in automatic emotion recognition. Using artificially generated speech for training or adapting models could potentially ease this: t...
Given sensors to detect object use, commonsense priors of object usage in activities can reduce the need for labeled data in learning activity models. It is often useful, however,...
Shiaokai Wang, William Pentney, Ana-Maria Popescu,...
Information extraction (IE) holds the promise of generating a large-scale knowledge base from the Web’s natural language text. Knowledge-based weak supervision, using structured...
Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Xiao Ling, Luke S....
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...