We propose a method to train a cascade of classifiers by simultaneously optimizing all its stages. The approach relies on the idea of optimizing soft cascades. In particular, inst...
Background: The number of sequences compiled in many genome projects is growing exponentially, but most of them have not been characterized experimentally. An automatic annotation...
A popular approach to problems in image classification is to represent the image as a bag of visual words and then employ a classifier to categorize the image. Unfortunately, a si...
Liu Yang, Rong Jin, Caroline Pantofaru, Rahul Sukt...
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
The Internet has enabled a great amount of information to be readily available and easily accessible. It has promoted several changes in the world, including in the education area...
Sean W. M. Siqueira, Maria Helena Lima Baptista Br...