View Seminar Video Abstract The heat equation is a partial differential equation which describes the variation of temperature in a given region over time subject to boundary conditions. We will define a related equation that[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Relational data consist of information that is specific to pairs (triples, etc) of objects. Examples include friendships among people, trade between countries, word counts in documents and interactions among proteins. A[…]
View Seminar Video Abstract Networks are ubiquitous in computer science and everyday life. We live embedded in social and professional networks, we communicate through telecommunications and computer networks, and we represent information in documents connected[…]
Abstract In this talk I show how automatically generated paraphrases can be used to improve the quality of statistical machine translation. Specifically, I show how paraphrases can be used to alleviate problems associated with out-of-vocabulary[…]
Abstract Consider a situation in which multiple terminals observe separate but correlated signals. In a multiterminal data compression problem, a la the classic work of Slepian and Wolf, each terminal seeks to acquire the signals[…]
Abstract Scan statistics are commonly used to investigate an instantiation of a random field for the possible presence of a local signal. Known in the engineering literature as “moving window analysis”, the idea is to[…]
Abstract Work on Question Answering (QA) has argued that the relation between a question and its answer(s) can be cast in terms of logical entailment. In this talk a QA framework that takes advantage of[…]
