Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant. Two such documents differ from each other in a very small portion that displays advertisements, for example. Such differences are irrele...
The 3D conformation of a protein may be compactly represented in a symmetrical, square, boolean matrix of pairwise, inter-residue contacts, or "contact map". The contact...
Jingjing Hu, Xiaolan Shen, Yu Shao, Chris Bystroff...
This paper describes our practical query-by-humming system, SoundCompass, which is being used as a karaoke song selection system in Japan. First, we describe the fundamental techn...