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NIPS
2003
15 years 10 days ago
Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process
We address the problem of learning topic hierarchies from data. The model selection problem in this domain is daunting—which of the large collection of possible trees to use? We...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
EMNLP
2007
15 years 12 days ago
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
FGR
2004
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Sparse Models for Gender Classification
A class of sparse regularization functions are considered for the developing sparse classifiers for determining facial gender. The sparse classification method aims to both select...
Nicholas Costen, Martin Brown, Shigeru Akamatsu
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
AAAI
2012
13 years 1 months ago
A Dynamic Rationalization of Distance Rationalizability
Distance rationalizability is an intuitive paradigm for developing and studying voting rules: given a notion of consensus and a distance function on preference profiles, a ration...
Craig Boutilier, Ariel D. Procaccia