How do we find a natural clustering of a real world point set, which contains an unknown number of clusters with different shapes, and which may be contaminated by noise? Most clu...
The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sources containing such opinions, e.g., product reviews, forums, discussion grou...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Linear Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become one of the most prominent machine learning techniques for highdimensional sparse data commonly encountered in applications like t...
Temporal patterns composed of symbolic intervals are commonly formulated with Allen's interval relations originating in temporal reasoning. This representation has severe dis...