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TARK
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Individual error, group error, and the value of information
Abstract This paper studies the interaction of error and information both in a single-person setting and in an interactive setting. In contrast to Blackwell’s Theorem, which says...
Itai Sher
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Wavelet synopses with error guarantees
Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition in reducing large amounts of data to compact sets of wavelet coefficients (termed "wavelet synopse...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Phillip B. Gibbons
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Phoneme-Based Student Model for Adaptive Spelling Training
We present a novel phoneme-based student model for spelling training. Our model is data driven, adapts to the user and provides information for, e.g., optimal word selection. We de...
Gian-Marco Baschera, Markus Gross
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Multiclass Text Classification with Error-Correcting Output Coding and Sub-class Partitions
Error-Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) is a general framework for multiclass text classification with a set of binary classifiers. It can not only help a binary classifier solve mul...
Baoli Li, Carl Vogel
JACM
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
The soft heap: an approximate priority queue with optimal error rate
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Bernard Chazelle