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ACL
1998
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Locating Noun Phrases with Finite State Transducers
We present a method for constructing, maintaining and consulting a database of proper nouns. We describe noun phrases composed of a proper noun and/or a description of a human occ...
Jean Senellart
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
USENIX
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
IJCAI
1993
13 years 10 months ago
Action Representation and Purpose: Re-evaluating the Foundations of Computational Vision
The traditional goal of computer vision, to reconstruct, or recover properties of, the scene has recently been challenged by advocates of a new purposive approach in which the vis...
Michael J. Black, Yiannis Aloimonos, Christopher M...
QNS
1996
13 years 10 months ago
Real Inferno
Inferno is an operating system well suited to applications that need to be portable, graphical, and networked. This paper describes the fundamental oating point facilities of the...
Eric Grosse