A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
—This paper focuses on Audio Event Detection (AED), a research area which aims to substantially enhance the access to audio in multimedia content. With the ever-growing quantity ...
Virginia Barbosa, Thomas Pellegrini, Miguel Bugalh...
The issue of Automatic Relevance Determination (ARD) has attracted attention over the last decade for the sake of efficiency and accuracy of classifiers, and also to extract knowle...
Recently, instead of selecting a single kernel, multiple kernel learning (MKL) has been proposed which uses a convex combination of kernels, where the weight of each kernel is opt...
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...