We describe a sentence-level opinion detection system. We first define what an opinion means in our research and introduce an effective method for obtaining opinion-bearing and nonopinion-bearing words. Then we describe recognizing opinion-bearing sentences using these words We test the system on 3 different test sets: MPQA data, an internal corpus, and the TREC2003 Novelty track data. We show ...

In this paper, we develop an effective method of detecting and tracking hands in uncontrolled videos based on multiple cues including hand shape, skin color, upper body position and flow information. We apply our hand detection results to perform fine-grained human action recognition. We demonstrate that motion features extracted from hand areas can help classify actions even when they look fam...

This paper presents an effective method for computing Standard bases for the local ring of an algebroid branch and for its module of Kähler differentials. This allows us to determine the semigroup of values of the ring and the values of its Kähler differentials, which in the case of complex analytic branches are, respectively, important topological and analytical invariants. c © 2006 Elsevier L...

In this paper we investigate the effective content of the structure theorem for the space E ′ of distributions with compact support. We show that each of the four characterisations of the space of distributions with compact support given in the structure theorem (below) gives rise to an effective domain representation of E ′. To show that the structure theorem has effective content, we study th...

Introduction Mentoring is an increasingly popular concept of learning, development and support. Over the last 20, its use has grown significantly and is continuing to develop within a wide range of settings. In fact 87% of businesses in the US utilized mentoring according to a SHRM Survey (1999), (Klasen and Clutterbuck 2002). Apparently, this trend is consistent throughout other parts of the w...

We propose a new effective method for obtaining lower bounds on the number of repetition-free words over a finite alphabet.

We study extensive form games where players might not be able to foresee the possible consequences of their actions and try to exploit the opponents’ believed weaknesses in order to improve upon the final outcome. We build upon existing models of games with limited foresight, endowing players with the ability of higher-order reasoning, and proposing a novel solution concept to address intuition...

As an innovative and cost-effective method for carrying out multiple-axis CNC machining, 3 1 2 1 2 -axis CNC machining technique adds an automatic indexing/rotary table with two additional discrete rotations to a regular 3-axis CNC machine, to improve its ability and efficiency for machining complex sculptured parts. In this work, a new tool path generation method to automatically subdivide a c...

We address the problem of transferring skills learned from interactive demonstrations. Learning from Demonstration is an effective method for quickly learning to complete a task; however, task demonstrations are often provided within a particular environment, and thus cannot be immediately repeated in unfamiliar environments that differ in object configurations and features. We describe our ong...

This paper proposes an effective method for automatic melody extraction in polyphonic music, especially vocal melody songs. The method is based on subharmonic summation spectrum and harmonic structure tracking strategy. Performance of the method is evaluated using the LabROSA database 1 . The pitch extraction accuracy of our method is 82.2% on the whole database, while 79.4% on the vocal part.