Typically, spam filters are built on the assumption that the characteristics of e-mails in the training set is identical to those in individual users’ inboxes on which it will b...
If two translation systems differ differ in performance on a test set, can we trust that this indicates a difference in true system quality? To answer this question, we describe b...
Discovering episodes, frequent sets of events from a sequence has been an active field in pattern mining. Traditionally, a level-wise approach is used to discover all frequent epis...
Background: Accurate estimation of statistical significance of a pairwise alignment is an important problem in sequence comparison. Recently, a comparative study of pairwise stati...
Bottom-up segmentation methods merge similar neighboring regions according to a decision rule and a merging order. In this paper, we propose a contribution for each of these two po...