Sciweavers

ICMLA
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Knowledge Transfer for Feature Generation in Document Classification
One important problem in machine learning is how to extract knowledge from prior experience, then transfer and apply this knowledge in new learning tasks. To address this problem, ...
Jian Zhang, Shobhit S. Shakya
AUSDM
2008
Springer
367views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Categorical Proportional Difference: A Feature Selection Method for Text Categorization
Supervised text categorization is a machine learning task where a predefined category label is automatically assigned to a previously unlabelled document based upon characteristic...
Mondelle Simeon, Robert J. Hilderman
KDD
2010
ACM
257views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Multi-task learning for boosting with application to web search ranking
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for multi-task learning with boosted decision trees. We learn several different learning tasks with a joint model, explicitly addressing...
Olivier Chapelle, Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Srin...
ICML
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Discovering Structure in Multiple Learning Tasks: The TC Algorithm
Recently, there has been an increased interest in "lifelong" machine learning methods, that transfer knowledge across multiple learning tasks. Such methods have repeated...
Sebastian Thrun, Joseph O'Sullivan
ICALT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Using Gestures to Learn about Graphs: The Contribution of Multimodal Technology
This paper describes a study that investigates the use of a multimodal technology in a learning task. In relation to the recent interest in learning as a multimodal experience, th...
Stamatina Anastopoulou, Mike Sharples, Chris Baber
IWINAC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
EDNA: Estimation of Dependency Networks Algorithm
One of the key points in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) is the learning of the probabilistic graphical model used to guide the search: the richer the model the more ...
José A. Gámez, Juan L. Mateo, Jose M...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to select relevant perspective in a dynamic environment
— When an agent observes its environment, there are two important characteristics of the perceived information. One is the relevance of information and the other is redundancy. T...
Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum, Qingxia...