Multinomial distributions over words are frequently used to model topics in text collections. A common, major challenge in applying all such topic models to any text mining proble...
We introduce a novel framework (BLOSOM) for mining (frequent) boolean expressions over binary-valued datasets. We organize the space of boolean expressions into four categories: p...
Lizhuang Zhao, Mohammed J. Zaki, Naren Ramakrishna...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...
Selection is a fundamental task in interactive applications, typically performed by clicking or lassoing items of interest. However, users may require more nuanced forms of select...