Pre-Pruning and Post-Pruning are two standard methods of dealing with noise in concept learning. Pre-Pruning methods are very efficient, while Post-Pruning methods typically are m...
Ontologies, and in particular upper ontologies, are foundational to the establishment of the Semantic Web. Upper ontologies are used as equivalence formalisms between domain speci...
Winston Anderson, Laurette Pretorius, Albert E. Ko...
Successful knowledge management may depend not only on knowledge capture, but on knowledge construction—on formulating new and useful knowledge that was not previously available...
David B. Leake, Ana Gabriela Maguitman, Thomas Rei...
Active engagement in the subject material has been strongly linked to deeper learning. In traditional teaching environments, even though the student might be presented with new con...
We apply a new active learning formulation to the problem of learning medical concepts from unstructured text. The new formulation is based on maximizing the mutual information th...