The theory of relevance is an approach for redundancy avoidance in labeled itemset mining. In this paper, we adapt this theory to the setting of sequential patterns. While in the itemset setting it is suggestive to use the closed patterns as representatives for the relevant patterns, we argue that due to different properties of the space of sequential patterns, it is preferable to use the minim...

In the field of handwritten Japanese address recognition, it is common to recognize place-name strings from placename images. However, in practice, it is necessary to recognize the place-name strings from address images. Therefore, we have proposed the post-processing system, which checks the list of the place-name strings in two-stages for recognizing the place-name images. In this paper, we p...

This paper explains the potential for the rise of state corporatism in Cuba during a transition to democracy. The focus is on examining the economic and political power of the Cuban military due to its involvement in the Cuban economy. The paper investigates Perfeccionamiento empresarial and how this program has led to a major increase in the power the military will wield during a post-communis...

In this paper, we present a motion segmentation approach based on the subspace segmentation technique, the generalized PCA. By incorporating the cues from the neighborhood of intensity edges of images, motion segmentation is solved under an algebra framework. Our main contribution is to propose a post-processing procedure, which can detect the boundaries of motion layers and further determine t...

Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants? We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non...

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In this paper we describe the system with which we have participated at TAC-2011 in the task of update summarization. This is our first participation in TAC, and we have started exploring the use of topic models for summarization. We have participated with a lightweight system that is an extension of TOPICSUM (Haghighi and Vanderwende, 2009), which we are currently extending for update summariz...