As text corpora become larger, tradeoffs between speed and accuracy become critical: slow but accurate methods may not complete in a practical amount of time. In order to make the...
Lawrence Shih, Jason D. Rennie, Yu-Han Chang, Davi...
We consider the problem of learning a ranking function that maximizes a generalization of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic on the training data. Relying on an -accurate approxim...
Vikas C. Raykar, Ramani Duraiswami, Balaji Krishna...
A vital task facing government agencies and commercial organizations that report data is to represent the data in a meaningful way and simultaneously to protect the confidentialit...
Fred Glover, Lawrence H. Cox, Rahul Patil, James P...
Background: Accurate estimation of statistical significance of a pairwise alignment is an important problem in sequence comparison. Recently, a comparative study of pairwise stati...
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...