It is usually assumed that the kind of noise existing in annotated data is random classification noise. Yet there is evidence that differences between annotators are not always ra...
The stochastic discrimination (SD) theory considers learning as building models of uniform coverage over data distributions. Despite successful trials of the derived SD method in s...
This paper explores two classes of model adaptation methods for Web search ranking: Model Interpolation and error-driven learning approaches based on a boosting algorithm. The res...
Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Marie...
We attemped to improve recognition accuracy by reducing the inadequacies of the lexicon and language model. Specifically we address the following three problems: (1) the best size...
Richard M. Schwartz, Long Nguyen, Francis Kubala, ...
Ensemble methods such as bootstrap, bagging or boosting have had a considerable impact on recent developments in machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision. Theoret...