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ICML
1998
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Employing EM and Pool-Based Active Learning for Text Classification
This paper shows how a text classifier's need for labeled training documents can be reduced by taking advantage of a large pool of unlabeled documents. We modify the Query-by...
Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam
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ECML
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Conceptual Clustering Applied to Ontologies
Abstract. A clustering method is presented which can be applied to semantically annotated resources in the context of ontological knowledge bases. This method can be used to discov...
Floriana Esposito, Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato
114
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ICML
2009
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Near-Bayesian exploration in polynomial time
We consider the exploration/exploitation problem in reinforcement learning (RL). The Bayesian approach to model-based RL offers an elegant solution to this problem, by considering...
J. Zico Kolter, Andrew Y. Ng
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ECTEL
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Bayesian Student Models Based on Item to Item Knowledge Structures
Bayesian networks are commonly used in cognitive student modeling and assessment. They typically represent the item-concepts relationships, where items are observable responses to ...
Michel Desmarais, Michel Gagnon
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AAAI
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Markov Blanket Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines
Based on Information Theory, optimal feature selection should be carried out by searching Markov blankets. In this paper, we formally analyze the current Markov blanket discovery ...
Jianqiang Shen, Lida Li, Weng-Keen Wong