: Existing adaptive e-learning methods are supported by student (user) profiling for capturing student characteristics, and course structuring for organizing learning materials acc...
Frederick W. B. Li, Rynson W. H. Lau, Parthiban Dh...
This paper discusses local alignment kernels in the context of the relation extraction task. We define a local alignment kernel based on the Smith-Waterman measure as a sequence s...
clustering of documents according to sharing of topics at multiple levels of abstraction. Given a corpus of documents, a posterior inference algorithm finds an approximation to a ...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
The mean running time of a Las Vegas algorithm can often be dramatically reduced by periodically restarting it with a fresh random seed. The optimal restart schedule depends on th...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
The automatic segmentation of the prostate and rectum from 3-D computed tomography (CT) images is still a challenging problem, and is critical for image-guided therapy application...