: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in many scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to...
This research explores the interaction of textual and photographic information in document understanding. The problem of performing generalpurpose vision without apriori knowledge...
Recent work in the philosophy of science has generated an apparent conflict between theories attempting to explicate the nature of scientific representation. On one side, there are...
The rapid globalization of Wikipedia is generating a parallel, multi-lingual corpus of unprecedented scale. Pages for the same topic in many different languages emerge both as a r...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...