In this paper we investigate how to identify initiation-response pairs in asynchronous, multi-threaded, multi-party conversations. We formulate the task of identifying initiation-...
Email plays an important role as a medium for the spread of information, ideas, and influence among its users. We present a framework to learn topic-based interactions between pa...
Dong Zhang, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Deb Roy, Samy Ben...
Given a set of images of scenes containing multiple object categories (e.g. grass, roads, buildings) our objective is to discover these objects in each image in an unsupervised man...
An implicit assumption in psychometrics and educational statistics is that the generative model for student scores on test questions is governed by the topics of those questions an...
A web page may be relevant to multiple topics; even when nominally on a single topic, the page may attract attention (and thus links) from multiple communities. Instead of indiscr...