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EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Gender Classification of Blog Authors
The problem of automatically classifying the gender of a blog author has important applications in many commercial domains. Existing systems mainly use features such as words, wor...
Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Fast dimension reduction for document classification based on imprecise spectrum analysis
This paper proposes an algorithm called Imprecise Spectrum Analysis (ISA) to carry out fast dimension reduction for document classification. ISA is designed based on the one-sided...
Hu Guan, Bin Xiao, Jingyu Zhou, Minyi Guo, Tao Yan...
BMVC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Discriminative Topics Modelling for Action Feature Selection and Recognition
This paper presents a framework for recognising realistic human actions captured from unconstrained environments. The novelties of this work lie in three aspects. First, we propos...
Matteo Bregonzio, Jian Li, Shaogang Gong, Tao Xian...
TMI
2010
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Comparison of AdaBoost and Support Vector Machines for Detecting Alzheimer's Disease Through Automated Hippocampal Segmentation
Abstract— We compared four automated methods for hippocampal segmentation using different machine learning algorithms (1) hierarchical AdaBoost, (2) Support Vector Machines (SVM)...
Jonathan H. Morra, Zhuowen Tu, Liana G. Apostolova...
SDM
2010
SIAM
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Convex Principal Feature Selection
A popular approach for dimensionality reduction and data analysis is principal component analysis (PCA). A limiting factor with PCA is that it does not inform us on which of the o...
Mahdokht Masaeli, Yan Yan, Ying Cui, Glenn Fung, J...
PR
2010
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Optimal feature selection for support vector machines
Selecting relevant features for Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers is important for a variety of reasons such as generalization performance, computational efficiency, and ...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Fernando De la Torre
PKDD
2010
Springer
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Expectation Propagation for Bayesian Multi-task Feature Selection
In this paper we propose a Bayesian model for multi-task feature selection. This model is based on a generalized spike and slab sparse prior distribution that enforces the selectio...
Daniel Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel...
PAMI
2010
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Evaluating Stability and Comparing Output of Feature Selectors that Optimize Feature Subset Cardinality
—Stability (robustness) of feature selection methods is a topic of recent interest, yet often neglected importance, with direct impact on the reliability of machine learning syst...
Petr Somol, Jana Novovicová
PAMI
2010
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Local-Learning-Based Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data Analysis
—This paper considers feature selection for data classification in the presence of a huge number of irrelevant features. We propose a new feature selection algorithm that addres...
Yijun Sun, Sinisa Todorovic, Steve Goodison
JCP
2008
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A Novel Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Hypothesis-Margin
Iterative search margin based algorithm(Simba) has been proven effective for feature selection. However, it still has the following disadvantages: (1) the previously proposed model...
Ming Yang, Fei Wang, Ping Yang