Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new salient object segmentation method, which is based on combining a saliency measure with a conditional random field (CRF) model. The propo...
Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkil...
We propose a semantic passage segmentation method for a Question Answering (QA) system. We define a semantic passage as sentences grouped by semantic coherence, determined by the...
Active learning strategies can be useful when manual labeling
effort is scarce, as they select the most informative
examples to be annotated first. However, for visual category
...
Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan (University of Texas a...
We describe a new approach for evaluating page segmentation algorithms. Unlike techniques that rely on OCR output, our method is region-based: the segmentation output, described a...