The Use of External Knowledge of Factoid QA
Whistler Text-to-Speech Engine
The talking computer HAL in the 1968 film “2001-A Space Odyssey” had an almost human voice, but it was the voice of an actor, not a computer. Getting a real computer to talk like HAL…
Support Vector Machines
Support vector machines are a set of algorithms that learn from data by creating models that maximize their margin of error. Support vector machines (SVMs) are a family of algorithms for classification, regression, transduction, novelty detection, and semi-supervised learning. They…
Data Mining
Goal The Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) process consists of data selection, data cleaning, data transformation and reduction, mining, interpretation and evaluation, and finally incorporation of the mined “knowledge” with the larger decision making…