Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has focused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time o...
Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soder...
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2009, the third time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Four ...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Olivier Ga...
Background: New high throughput pyrosequencers such as the 454 Life Sciences GS 20 are capable of massively parallelizing DNA sequencing providing an unprecedented rate of output ...
Gabriele A. Trombetti, Raoul J. P. Bonnal, Ermanno...
We propose a new set of rotationally and translationally invariant features for image or pattern recognition and classification. The new features are cubic polynomials in the pix...
The paper considers robust optimization to cope with uncertainty about the stock return process in one period option hedging problems. The robust approach relates portfolio choice ...