Bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) represent the appearance of complex materials. Three major shortcomings with BTFs are the bulky storage, the difficulty in editing and the ...
Statistical topic models such as the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have emerged as an attractive framework to model, visualize and summarize large document collections in a co...
Ramesh Nallapati, Amr Ahmed, William W. Cohen, Eri...
The current methods used to mine and analyze temporal social network data make two assumptions: all edges have the same strength, and all parameters are time-homogeneous. We show ...
Human emotion is one important underlying force affecting and affected by the dynamics of social networks. An interesting question is "can we predict a person's mood base...
Yuan Zhang, Jie Tang, Jimeng Sun, Yiran Chen, Jing...
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory proce...