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KDD
2010
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Growing a tree in the forest: constructing folksonomies by integrating structured metadata
Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured ...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor
UAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
TSD
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Prosodic Structures in Linguistically Enriched Environments
A significant challenge in Text-to-Speech (TtS) synthesis is the formulation of the prosodic structures (phrase breaks, pitch accents, phrase accents and boundary tones) of uttera...
Gerasimos Xydas, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Georgios...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Designing an AI Elective to Encourage Undergraduate Research
This paper describes the design and execution of a roboticsthemed AI elective at a small liberal arts institution. An important goal of the course is to spark and nurture students...
Zachary Dodds
DAGSTUHL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Decision-Theoretic Control of Planetary Rovers
Planetary rovers are small unmanned vehicles equipped with cameras and a variety of sensors used for scientific experiments. They must operate under tight constraints over such res...
Shlomo Zilberstein, Richard Washington, Daniel S. ...