: National and international standards for professional groups may become a dominant and governing force as internet-based professional training becomes universally accepted. Educa...
This paper presents early work on the "Jots" system, integrated with the Scratch programming environment, which aims to help learners reflect on their learning processes...
Conditional random field methods (CRFs) have gained popularity for image labeling tasks in recent years. In this paper, we describe an alternative discriminative approach, by exte...
Distributional similarity has been widely used to capture the semantic relatedness of words in many NLP tasks. However, various parameters such as similarity measures must be hand...
In this paper we define and address the problem of safe exploration in the context of reinforcement learning. Our notion of safety is concerned with states or transitions that can ...