We investigate a topic at the interface of machine learning and cognitive science. Human active learning, where learners can actively query the world for information, is contraste...
Rui M. Castro, Charles Kalish, Robert Nowak, Ruich...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems are built with different goals in mind. Some IR systems target high precision that is to have more relevant documents on the first page of their...
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
The problem of joint modeling the text and image components of multimedia documents is studied. The text component is represented as a sample from a hidden topic model, learned wi...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Cov...
This paper investigates unsupervised vocabulary and language model self-adaptation (VLA) from just one speech file using the web as a knowledge source and without prior knowledge...