Recently, the bag-of-words approach has been successfully applied to automatic image annotation, object recognition, etc. The method needs to first quantize an image using the vis...
Feature selection is an important task in effective data mining. A new challenge to feature selection is the so-called “small labeled-sample problem” in which labeled data is...
Traditionally, direct marketing companies have relied on pre-testing to select the best offers to send to their audiences. Companies systematically dispatch the offers under consid...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...
We present a novel approach that transforms the weighting task to a typical coarse-grained classification problem, aiming to assign appropriate weights for candidate expansion term...
A new efficient unsupervised feature selection method is proposed to handle transactional data. The proposed feature selection method introduces a new Data Distribution Factor (DDF...