Previous work has shown that the difficulties in learning deep generative or discriminative models can be overcome by an initial unsupervised learning step that maps inputs to use...
Pascal Vincent, Hugo Larochelle, Yoshua Bengio, Pi...
Automatically categorizing documents into pre-defined topic hierarchies or taxonomies is a crucial step in knowledge and content management. Standard machine learning techniques ...
It is argued that the analysis of the learner's generated log files during interactions with a learning environment is necessary to produce interpretative views of their activ...
This paper presents a new information acquisition problem motivated by business applications where customer data has to be acquired with a specific modeling objective in mind. In ...
The issue of initializing the model of a new student is of great importance for educational applications that aim at offering individualized support to students. In this paper we ...