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ICML
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Feature Engineering for Text Classification
Most research in text classification to date has used a “bag of words” representation in which each feature corresponds to a single word. This paper examines some alternative ...
Sam Scott, Stan Matwin
ICML
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Hierarchical Performance Knowledge by Observation
Developing automated agents that intelligently perform complex real world tasks is time consuming and expensive. The most expensive part of developing these intelligent task perfo...
Michael van Lent, John E. Laird
ICML
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Experiments with Noise Filtering in a Medical Domain
Dragan Gamberger, Nada Lavrac, Ciril Groselj
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Lazy Bayesian Rules: A Lazy Semi-Naive Bayesian Learning Technique Competitive to Boosting Decision Trees
Lbr is a lazy semi-naive Bayesian classi er learning technique, designed to alleviate the attribute interdependence problem of naive Bayesian classi cation. To classify a test exa...
Zijian Zheng, Geoffrey I. Webb, Kai Ming Ting
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Machine-Learning Applications of Algorithmic Randomness
Most machine learning algorithms share the following drawback: they only output bare predictions but not the con dence in those predictions. In the 1960s algorithmic information t...
Volodya Vovk, Alexander Gammerman, Craig Saunders
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Approximation Via Value Unification
: Numerical function approximation over a Boolean domain is a classical problem with wide application to data modeling tasks and various forms of learning. A great many function ap...
Paul E. Utgoff, David J. Stracuzzi
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Monte Carlo Hidden Markov Models: Learning Non-Parametric Models of Partially Observable Stochastic Processes
We present a learning algorithm for non-parametric hidden Markov models with continuous state and observation spaces. All necessary probability densities are approximated using sa...
Sebastian Thrun, John Langford, Dieter Fox
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Active Learning for Natural Language Parsing and Information Extraction
Cynthia A. Thompson, Mary Elaine Califf, Raymond J...
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Value Functions
Many interesting problems, such as power grids, network switches, and tra c ow, that are candidates for solving with reinforcement learningRL, alsohave properties that make distri...
Jeff G. Schneider, Weng-Keen Wong, Andrew W. Moore...
ICML
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Using Reinforcement Learning to Spider the Web Efficiently
Consider the task of exploring the Web in order to find pages of a particular kind or on a particular topic. This task arises in the construction of search engines and Web knowled...
Jason Rennie, Andrew McCallum