As opposed to representing a document as a "bag of words" in most information retrieval applications, we propose a model of representing a web page as sets of named enti...
Nan Di, Conglei Yao, Mengcheng Duan, Jonathan J. H...
Suppose there is a large corpus of XML documents, each of which describes a movie released in the last 30 years (for example, extracted from IMDB). A movie enthusiast wants to mak...
Abstract. In this paper we take a fresh look at the problem of extracting shape from contours of human faces. We focus on two key questions: how can we robustly fit a 3D face mode...
Even the entire Web corpus does not explicitly answer all questions, yet inference can uncover many implicit answers. But where do inference rules come from? This paper investigat...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Jesse Davis, Oren Etzioni, D...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...