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COLING
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Rank Distance as a Stylistic Similarity
In this paper we propose a new distance function (rank distance) designed to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of this distance measure to capture ...
Marius Popescu, Liviu Petrisor Dinu
ICML
2003
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Learning Distance Functions using Equivalence Relations
We address the problem of learning distance metrics using side-information in the form of groups of "similar" points. We propose to use the RCA algorithm, which is a sim...
Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Noam Shental, Daph...
TCS
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Maximal width learning of binary functions
This paper concerns learning binary-valued functions defined on IR, and investigates how a particular type of ‘regularity’ of hypotheses can be used to obtain better generali...
Martin Anthony, Joel Ratsaby
NIPS
2007
15 years 1 months ago
Learning and using relational theories
Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical ...
Charles Kemp, Noah Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
CACM
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Efficiently searching for similar images
As it becomes increasingly viable to capture, store, and share large amounts of image and video data, automatic image analysis is crucial to managing visual information. Many prob...
Kristen Grauman