We introduce a new type of graphical model called a `cumulative distribution network' (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. ...
In this paper we propose a new framework for modeling 2D shapes. A shape is first described by a sequence of local features (e.g., curvature) of the shape boundary. The resulting ...
Corpus-based grammar induction generally relies on hand-parsed training data to learn the structure of the language. Unfortunately, the cost of building large annotated corpora is...
In this paper, we study the problem of using an annotated corpus in English for the same natural language processing task in another language. While various machine translation sy...
With more and more commercial activities moving onto the Internet, people tend to purchase what they need through Internet or conduct some online research before the actual transac...