The work presented here is based on a paper under submission with Micha Elsner. This thesis presents a system for fusing sentences which are drawn from the same souce document but differ significantly in content. The system described here is supervised, trained from real world examples of sentences fused by professional journalists in the process of editing news articles. The system is similar ...

Biometric fusion, acquisition and combination of multiple pieces of evidence of identity, can achieve higher accuracy of biometric recognition than using a single biometric. However, fusion increases the cost or throughput of the system since it requires acquisition and processing of more samples. We document a procedure for contingent fusion. That is, two biometrics are fused only if verificat...