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EMNLP
2008
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Scaling Textual Inference to the Web
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
ICMLA
2007
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Scalable optimal linear representation for face and object recognition
Optimal Component Analysis (OCA) is a linear method for feature extraction and dimension reduction. It has been widely used in many applications such as face and object recognitio...
Yiming Wu, Xiuwen Liu, Washington Mio
IJCAI
2007
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Incompleteness and Incomparability in Preference Aggregation
We consider how to combine the preferences of multiple agents despite the presence of incompleteness and incomparability in their preference orderings. An agent’s preference orde...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
NIPS
2007
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Multi-task Gaussian Process Prediction
In this paper we investigate multi-task learning in the context of Gaussian Processes (GP). We propose a model that learns a shared covariance function on input-dependent features...
Edwin V. Bonilla, Kian Ming Chai, Christopher K. I...
NIPS
2007
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On Ranking in Survival Analysis: Bounds on the Concordance Index
In this paper, we show that classical survival analysis involving censored data can naturally be cast as a ranking problem. The concordance index (CI), which quantifies the quali...
Vikas C. Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram...