NPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long as the ...
When using machine learning for in silico modeling, the goal is normally to obtain highly accurate predictive models. Often, however, models should also bring insights into intere...
Relation extraction is the task of finding pre-defined semantic relations between two entities or entity mentions from text. Many methods, such as feature-based and kernel-based m...
Local ratio is a well-known paradigm for designing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. At a very high level, a local-ratio algorithm first decomposes ...
In many scientific and engineering applications, detecting and understanding differences between two groups of examples can be reduced to a classical problem of training a classif...