This article describes preliminary work on a research environment called Virtus that is a web-based learning system tailored to enhance group working and collaborative learning. W...
We study metric learning as a problem of information retrieval. We present a general metric learning algorithm, based on the structural SVM framework, to learn a metric such that ...
There is interplay between emotions and learning, but this interaction is far more complex than previous learning theories have articulated--this interplay interacts with other re...
We consider the problem of finding officially unrecognized side effects of drugs. By submitting queries to the Web involving a given drug name, it is possible to retrieve pages co...
Carlo Curino, Yuanyuan Jia, Bruce Lambert, Patrici...
The paper deals with the task of definition extraction from a small and noisy corpus of instructive texts. Three approaches are presented: Partial Parsing, Machine Learning and a ...