Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
Estimating insurance premia from data is a difficult regression problem for several reasons: the large number of variables, many of which are discrete, and the very peculiar shape...
Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, J...
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
In this paper, we propose an e cient technique for the animation of exible thin objects. Massspring model was employed to represent the exible objects. Many techniques have used t...
This paper presents a new, scalable, single pass algorithm for computing subsurface scattering using the diffusion approximation. Instead of pre-computing a globally conservative ...