We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...
Many tasks in speech processing involve classification of long term characteristics of a speech segment such as language, speaker, dialect, or topic. A natural technique for dete...
For extractive meeting summarization, previous studies have shown performance degradation when using speech recognition transcripts because of the relatively high speech recogniti...
Medical histories provide a rich resource for diagnoses and treatment. Similarly, consumers’ blog postings on health-related topics offer unique data for medical researchers, pr...
This paper discusses the task of tracking mentions of some topically interesting textual entity from a continuously and dynamically changing flow of text, such as a news feed, the ...