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PAKDD
2005
ACM
102views Data Mining» more  PAKDD 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Occupation Coding with Combination of Machine Learning and Hand-Crafted Rules
Abstract. We apply a machine learning method to the occupation coding, which is a task to categorize the answers to open-ended questions regarding the respondent’s occupation. Sp...
Kazuko Takahashi, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
GECCO
2006
Springer
208views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing evolutionary and temporal difference methods in a reinforcement learning domain
Both genetic algorithms (GAs) and temporal difference (TD) methods have proven effective at solving reinforcement learning (RL) problems. However, since few rigorous empirical com...
Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
NIPS
2003
13 years 7 months ago
Learning a Distance Metric from Relative Comparisons
This paper presents a method for learning a distance metric from relative comparison such as “A is closer to B than A is to C”. Taking a Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach,...
Matthew Schultz, Thorsten Joachims
KDD
2007
ACM
139views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Raising the baseline for high-precision text classifiers
Many important application areas of text classifiers demand high precision and it is common to compare prospective solutions to the performance of Naive Bayes. This baseline is us...
Aleksander Kolcz, Wen-tau Yih
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Comparisons of sequence labeling algorithms and extensions
In this paper, we survey the current state-ofart models for structured learning problems, including Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Conditional Random Fields (CRF), Averaged Perceptron...
Nam Nguyen, Yunsong Guo