Along with the arrival of multimedia time, multimedia data has replaced textual data to transfer information in various fields. As an important form of multimedia data, images have been widely utilized by many applications, such as face recognition and image classification. Therefore, how to accurately annotate each image from a large set of images is of vital importance but challenging. To perform these tasks well, it is crucial to extract suitable features to character the visual contents of images and learn an appropriate distance metric to measure similarities between all images. Unfortunately, existing feature operators, such as histogram of gradient, local binary pattern, and color histogram, care more about the visual character of images and lack the ability to distinguish semantic information. Similarities between those features cannot reflect the real category correlations due to the well-known semantic gap. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a regularized distance metric framework called semantic discriminative metric learning (SDML). SDML combines geometric mean with normalized divergences and separates images from different classes simultaneously. The learned distance metric can treat all images from different classes equally. And distinctions between similar classes with entirely different semantic contents are emphasized by SDML. This procedure ensures the consistency between dissimilarities and semantic distinctions and avoids inaccuracy similarities incurred by unbalanced locations of samples. Various experiments on benchmark image datasets show the excellent performance of the novel method.

Coreference resolution recently plays a more and more important role for many natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we propose two methods for the biomedical coreference resolution. One is the single machine learning method (SVM ranker-learning algorithm) which selects appropriate features for the pronoun and noun phrase coreference resolution respectively. The other one is the hybrid method which adopts the rule-based method or the machine learning method for relative pronouns, non-relative pronouns and noun phrases coreference resolution respectively. Experiments are carried out on Biomedical Natural Language Process Shared Task (BioNLP-ST)12011 coreference resolution corpus. In the first method (the single machine learning method), the F-score is 49.36%, higher than that using the same method with the features in the Reconcile system by 10.06%. In the second method (the hybrid method), the F-score is 68.61%, higher than that of the currently best system by 1.21%.