This thesis proposal outlines the use of unsupervised data-driven methods for paraphrasing tasks. We motivate the development of knowledge-free methods at the guiding use case of multi-document summarization, which requires a domain-adaptable system for both the detection and generation of sentential paraphrases. First, we define a number of guiding research questions that will be addressed in ...

We present in this paper a technique for stylized reuse of view-dependent animation. We illustrate with an example, how can a unique animation be synthesized by reusing the view-dependent variations of the same character. We start with a sequence of sketches given by an artist, create the view-dependent model corresponding to the sketches and then generate the view-dependent animations by movin...

Attribution of anonymous texts, if not based on factors external to the text (such as paper and ink type or document provenance, as used in forensic document examination), is largely, if not entirely, based on considerations of language style. We will consider here the question of how to best deconstruct a text into quantitative features for purposes of stylistic discrimination. Two key conside...