How can we get such reliable behavior from the mind when the brain is made up of such unreliable elements as neurons? We propose that the answer is related to the emergence of stab...
We simulate the evolution of a domain vocabulary in small communities. Empirical data show that human communicators can evolve graphical languages quickly in a constrained task (P...
This paper presents the Topic-Aspect Model (TAM), a Bayesian mixture model which jointly discovers topics and aspects. We broadly define an aspect of a document as a characteristi...
Many perception and multimedia indexing problems involve datasets that are naturally comprised of multiple streams or modalities for which supervised training data is only sparsely...
Ashish Kapoor, Chris Mario Christoudias, Raquel Ur...
Similarity search and data mining often rely on distance or similarity functions in order to provide meaningful results and semantically meaningful patterns. However, standard dist...
Tobias Emrich, Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Mat...