In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
Text classification has matured as a research discipline over the last decade. Independently, business intelligence over structured databases has long been a source of insights fo...
Many websites have large collections of pages generated dynamically from an underlying structured source like a database. The data of a category are typically encoded into similar...
The output of a data mining algorithm is only as good as its inputs, and individuals are often unwilling to provide accurate data about sensitive topics such as medical history an...
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...