Abstract. Database systems are islands of structure in a sea of unstructured data sources. Several real-world applications now need to create bridges for smooth integration of semi...
Previous work demonstrated that web counts can be used to approximate bigram frequencies, and thus should be useful for a wide variety of NLP tasks. So far, only two generation ta...
A generative probabilistic model for objects in images is presented. An object consists of a constellation of features. Feature appearance and pose are modeled probabilistically. ...
— Fundamental to the problem of lifelong machine learning is how to consolidate the knowledge of a learned task within a long-term memory structure (domain knowledge) without the...
This paper describes a new program, correct, which takes words rejected by the Unix spell program, proposes a list of candidate corrections, and sorts them by probability. The pro...
Mark D. Kernighan, Kenneth Ward Church, William A....