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CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Activity rhythm detection and modeling
We present an algorithm for detecting and modeling rhythmic temporal patterns from the record of an individual's computer activity, or online "presence." The model ...
Rosco Hill, James Begole
WSC
2004
15 years 6 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
STOC
2009
ACM
91views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Inaccessible entropy
We put forth a new computational notion of entropy, which measures the (in)feasibility of sampling high entropy strings that are consistent with a given protocol. Specifically, we...
Iftach Haitner, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Ho...
SSDBM
2009
IEEE
174views Database» more  SSDBM 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Optimization and Execution of Complex Scientific Queries over Uncorrelated Experimental Data
Scientific experiments produce large volumes of data represented as complex objects that describe independent events such as particle collisions. Scientific analyses can be express...
Ruslan Fomkin, Tore Risch
NAACL
1994
15 years 6 months ago
Integrated Techniques for Phrase Extraction from Speech
We present an integrated approach to speech and natural language processing which uses a single parser to create training for a statistical speech recognition component and for in...
Marie Meteer, Jan Robin Rohlicek