The regular occurrence of disfluencies is a distinguishing characteristic of spontaneous speech. Detecting and removing such disfluencies can substantially improve the usefulness ...
Abstract—We present a method for modeling, and automatically inferring, the current interest of a user in search advertising. Our task is complementary to that of predicting ad r...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Az...
Dynamic UML models like sequence diagrams (SD) lack sufficient formal semantics, making it difficult to build automated tools for their analysis, simulation and validation. A commo...
Marouane Kessentini, Arbi Bouchoucha, Houari A. Sa...
This paper introduces a new similarity measure designed to bring a population of segmented subjects into alignment in a common coordinate system. Our metric aligns each subject wit...
Mathieu De Craene, Aloys du Bois d'Aische, Beno&ic...
Automatic tuning has been an elusive goal for database technology for a long time and is becoming a pressing issue for modern E-services. This paper reviews and assesses the advan...