Abstract. We describe several improvements to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost boosting algorithm, particularly in a setting in which hypotheses may assign confidences to each o...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Recent work on Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) has shown that syntactic information is critical to detect and extract predicate argument structures. As syntax is expressed by means of...
Abstract. The libre software development model has shown how combining collective intelligence can lead to revolutionary methods that underpin major software advancements. This pap...
We introduce a framework for actively learning visual categories from a mixture of weakly and strongly labeled image examples. We propose to allow the categorylearner to strategic...