Hybrid Constituent and Dependency Parsing with Tsinghua Chinese Treebank
In this paper, we describe our hybrid parsing model on Mandarin Chinese processing. The model combines the mainstream constitute and dependency parsing and the dataset we use it the Tsinghua Chinese Treebank, whose annotation has both constitutes and head information. We show the adaption of this annotation scheme to the normal constitute structure, dependency structure, and the integration of both. We achieve a f1-score of 85.23% for the constitute parsing, 82.35% for the partial head information, and 74.27% for the complete head information.

title: Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures
abstract: In this paper, we first compare several strategies to handle the newly proposed three-way Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) task. Then we define a new measurement for a pair of texts, called Textual Relatedness, which is a weaker concept than semantic similarity or paraphrase. We show that an alignment model based on the predicate-argument structures using this measurement can help an RTE system to recognize the Unknown cases at the first stage, and contribute to the improvement of the overall performance in the RTE task. In addition, several heterogeneous lexical resources are tested, and different contributions from them are observed.

title: SketchML a representation language for novel sketch recognition approach
abstract: Multimodal interfaces can be profitably used to support increasingly complex services in assistive environments. In particular, sketch-based interfaces offer users an effortless and powerful communication way to represent concepts and commands on different devices. Unlike other modalities, sketch-based interaction can be easily fitted according to heterogeneous services. Moreover it can be quickly personalized according to the user needs.
 Developing a sketch-based interface for a specific service is a time-consuming operation that requires the re-engineering and/or the re-designing of the whole recognizer framework. This paper describes a definitive framework by which the user, simply by using freehand drawing, can define every kind of sketch-based interface. The definition of the interface and its recognition process are performed by using our developed Sketch Modeling Language (SketchML).

title: Ontology-based Query Construction for GeoCLEF
abstract: This paper describes experiments with geographical information retrieval (GIR). Being different from the traditional information IR, we focus more on the query expansion instead of document ranking. We parse each topic into the event part and the geographic part and use different ontologies to expand both parts respectively. The results show promising results of our strategy for this task.

title: Using Recognizing Textual Entailment as a Core Engine for Answer Validation
abstract: This paper is about our approach to answer validation, which centered by a Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) core engine. We first combined the question and the answer into Hypothesis (H) and view the document as Text (T); then, we used our RTE system to check whether the entailment relation holds between them. Our system was evaluated on the Answer Validation Exercise (AVE) task and achieved f-measures of 0.46 and 0.55 for two submission runs, which both outperformed others' results for the English language.

title: DFKI-LT at QAST 2007: Adapting QA Components to Mine Answers in Speech Transcripts
abstract: The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptation of our text---based crosslingual open---domain QA system that we used for the CLEF main tasks.

title: A new scaling law on throughput and delay performance of wireless mobile relay networks over parallel fading channels
abstract: In this paper, utilizing the relay buffers, we propose an opportunistic decode-wait-and-forward relay scheme for a point-to-point communication system with a half-duplexing mobile relay network. The proposed scheme achieves the maximum throughput of Θ(log K) at a cost of O(1) total transmission power and O(K=q) average end-to-end packet delay, where 0 ≪ q ≤ ½ measures the speed of relays' mobility. It can be proved that this system throughput is unattainable for the existing designs with low relay mobility. Therefore, the proposed relay scheme can exploit the time diversity and relays' mobility more efficiently.

title: Synthesizing trees by plantons
abstract: In this paper, we present a two-level statistical model for characterizing the stochastic and specific nature of trees. At the low level, we define plantons, which are a group of similar organs, to depict tree organ details statistically. At the high level, a set of transitions between plantons is provided to describe the stochastic distribution of organs.Based on such a tree model, we propose a novel tree modeling approach, synthesizing trees by plantons, which are extracted from tree samples. All tree samples are captured from the real world. We have designed a maximum likelihood estimation algorithm to acquire the two-level statistical tree model from single samples or multi- samples. Experimental results show that our new model is capable of synthesizing new trees with similar, yet visually different shapes.

title: Joint cross-layer scheduling and spectrum sensing for OFDMA cognitive radio systems
abstract: In most of the existing works on cognitive radio (CR) systems, the spectrum sensing and the cross-layer scheduling are designed separately. Specifically, the sensing module first determines whether or not a channel resource is available for the CR system based on the sensing information. The scheduling module then schedules the data transmission of different users on the available channels based on the hard-decision sensing information (HSI). In this paper, we shall propose a joint crosslayer and sensing design and study its performance advantages over the aforementioned traditional decoupled approaches. We shall consider the downlink transmission of an OFDMA-based secondary system sharing the spectrum with primary users using cognitive radio technology. We shall rely on the joint design framework to optimize a system utility, which adapts the power allocation and the subcarrier assignment across the secondary users (under a average interference constraint to the primary users) based on both the channel state information (CSI) and the raw sensing information (RSI). In addition, we shall also propose a distributed implementation for the cross-layer sensing and scheduling design using primal-dual decomposition approach. Simulation results reveals the substantial performance gain of the proposed joint design over the conventional CR systems.

title: All-frequency relighting of glossy objects
abstract: We present a technique for interactive rendering of glossy objects in complex and dynamic lighting environments that captures interreflections and all-frequency shadows. Our system is based on precomputed radiance transfer and separable BRDF approximation. We factor glossy BRDFs using a separable decomposition and keep only a few low-order approximation terms, each consisting of a purely view-dependent and a purely light-dependent component. In the precomputation step, for every vertex, we sample its visibility and compute a direct illumination transport vector corresponding to each BRDF term. We use modern graphics hardware to accelerate this step and further compress the data using a nonlinear wavelet approximation. The direct illumination pass is followed by one or more interreflection passes, each of which gathers compressed transport vectors from the previous pass to produce global illumination transport vectors. To render at run time, we dynamically sample the lighting to produce a light vector, also represented in a wavelet basis. We compute the inner product of the light vector with the precomputed transport vectors, and the results are further combined with the BRDF view-dependent components to produce vertex colors. We describe acceleration of the rendering algorithm using programmable graphics hardware and discuss the limitations and trade-offs imposed by the hardware.

title: User-Centered Design and Visualization of Service Oriented Recommender Agents: An Approach to Achieve Better Consumers' Involvement in E-Commerce Systems
abstract: This paper identifies some issues related to consumers’ involvement in current e-commerce systems and presents a possible solution. In this paper, it is assumed that adopting user-centered design concept to establish service oriented recommender agents and visualizing those agents into human-look-alike avatars in virtual environments (VEs) could be a proper concept and approach to increase consumers’ involvement. This paper develops a conceptual model of how consumers’ involvement could be increased to a higher level by adopting those design concepts. The proposed experimentation that could test this model is also illustrated.