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HCI
2007
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Serial Hanging Out: Rapid Ethnographic Needs Assessment in Rural Settings
This paper presents an ethnographic method for assessing user needs in designing for rural settings. “Serial Hanging Out” consists of short-term participant observation with mu...
Jaspal S. Sandhu, P. Altankhuyag, D. Amarsaikhan
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NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by penalized convex risk minimization
We develop and analyze an algorithm for nonparametric estimation of divergence functionals and the density ratio of two probability distributions. Our method is based on a variati...
XuanLong Nguyen, Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. ...
ACL
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation
Developing better methods for segmenting continuous text into words is important for improving the processing of Asian languages, and may shed light on how humans learn to segment...
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnso...
ESANN
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Reducing policy degradation in neuro-dynamic programming
We focus on neuro-dynamic programming methods to learn state-action value functions and outline some of the inherent problems to be faced, when performing reinforcement learning in...
Thomas Gabel, Martin Riedmiller
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EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
15 years 7 months ago
CAST: A computer-aided summarisation tool
In this paper we propose computeraided summarisation (CAS) as an alternative approach to automatic summarisation, and present an ongoing project which aims to develop a CAS system...
Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov, Laura Hasler