Statistical modeling for content based retrieval is examined in the context of recent TREC Video benchmark exercise. The TREC Video exercise can be viewed as a test bed for evalua...
Milind R. Naphade, Sankar Basu, John R. Smith, Chi...
We examine the problem of evaluating a policy in the contextual bandit setting using only observations collected during the execution of another policy. We show that policy evalua...
John Langford, Alexander L. Strehl, Jennifer Wortm...
String kernels which compare the set of all common substrings between two given strings have recently been proposed by Vishwanathan & Smola (2004). Surprisingly, these kernels...
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
Name ambiguity is a special case of identity uncertainty where one person can be referenced by multiple name variations in different situations or even share the same name with ot...
Yang Song, Jian Huang 0002, Isaac G. Councill, Jia...