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UAI
2003
13 years 5 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...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Mining models of human activities from the web
The ability to determine what day-to-day activity (such as cooking pasta, taking a pill, or watching a video) a person is performing is of interest in many application domains. A ...
Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fish...
VLDB
1998
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures
Mining for association rules in market basket data has proved a fruitful areaof research. Measures such as conditional probability (confidence) and correlation have been used to i...
Craig Silverstein, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
CORR
2010
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Supervised Random Walks: Predicting and Recommending Links in Social Networks
Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interact...
Lars Backstrom, Jure Leskovec
EMNLP
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation
We present a method for improving word alignment for statistical syntax-based machine translation that employs a syntactically informed alignment model closer to the translation m...
Jonathan May, Kevin Knight