All students of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) attend undergraduate and postgraduate courses at a distance. The lack of a live academic community is reported by many as a drawb...
This paper points out that many machine learning problems in IR should be and can be formalized in a novel way, referred to as `group-based learning'. In group-based learning...
Abstract. An important task in many scientific and engineering disciplines is to set up experiments with the goal of finding the best instances (substances, compositions, designs) ...
In this paper we consider the problem of policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, i.e., learning the value function of a fixed policy, using the least-squares temporal-differe...
Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Ré...
This paper describes the Arabic broadcast transcription system fielded by IBM in the GALE Phase 3.5 machine translation evaluation. Key advances compared to our Phase 2.5 system ...
George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Upendra Chaudhari, Step...