We describe an algorithm for computing an image signature, suitable for first-stage screening for duplicate images. Our signature relies on relative brightness of image regions, a...
It is important for future NLP systems to formulate the semantic equivalence (and more generally, the semantic similarity) of natural language expressions. In particular, paraphra...
For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign L...
We present three distributed algorithms to build global inverted files for very large text collections. The distributed environment we use is a high bandwidth network of workstati...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Edleno Silva de Moura, M...
In this paper we present a new segmentation method for the Multidimensional Multiscale Parser (MMP) algorithm. In previous works we have shown that, for text and compound images, ...
Eduardo A. B. da Silva, Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Muri...