or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
The use of NLP techniques for document classification has not produced significant improvements in performance within the standard term weighting statistical assignment paradigm (...
Retrieving images from very large collections, using image content as a key, is becoming an important problem. Users prefer to ask for pictures using notions of content that are st...
David A. Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Thomas K. Leung,...
Abstract—The seismic response of bridges seismically isolated by lead-rubber bearings (LRB) to earthquake excitations of different magnitudes is presented in this thesis. The fo...
This paper presents the Topic-Aspect Model (TAM), a Bayesian mixture model which jointly discovers topics and aspects. We broadly define an aspect of a document as a characteristi...