When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
Conditional random fields (CRFs) have been quite successful in various machine learning tasks. However, as larger and larger data become acceptable for the current computational ma...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...
: I have always been a strong believer and practitioner of the JFDI approach to development, which yields high morale, early identification of problems in design and of any misunde...