For social science researchers, content analysis and classification of United States Congressional legislative activities has been time consuming and costly. The Library of Congre...
We investigate hierarchical graphical models (HGMs) for automatically detecting decisions in multi-party discussions. Several types of dialogue act (DA) are distinguished on the b...
The impact of image feature locations in the bag-of-words model for object classification is examined. It is demonstrated that a simple variance-based method works well and offer...
We study the problem of learning a classification task in which only a dissimilarity function of the objects is accessible. That is, data are not represented by feature vectors bu...