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AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Sense Sentiment Similarity: An Analysis
This paper describes an emotion-based approach to acquire sentiment similarity of word pairs with respect to their senses. Sentiment similarity indicates the similarity between tw...
Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Man Lan, Thanh Phu Tr...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Discovering Spammers in Social Networks
As the popularity of the social media increases, as evidenced in Twitter, Facebook and China’s Renren, spamming activities also picked up in numbers and variety. On social netwo...
Yin Zhu, Xiao Wang, ErHeng Zhong, Nathan Nan Liu, ...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Transfer Learning in Collaborative Filtering with Uncertain Ratings
To solve the sparsity problem in collaborative filtering, researchers have introduced transfer learning as a viable approach to make use of auxiliary data. Most previous transfer...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Qiang Yang
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Robust Cuts Over Time: Combatting the Spread of Invasive Species with Unreliable Biological Control
Widespread accounts of the harmful effects of invasive species have stimulated both practical and theoretical studies on how the spread of these destructive agents can be containe...
Gwen Spencer
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Double-Bit Quantization for Hashing
Hashing, which tries to learn similarity-preserving binary codes for data representation, has been widely used for efficient nearest neighbor search in massive databases due to i...
Weihao Kong, Wu-Jun Li
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Colorization by Matrix Completion
Given a monochrome image and some manually labeled pixels, the colorization problem is a computer-assisted process of adding color to the monochrome image. This paper proposes a n...
Shusen Wang, Zhihua Zhang
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Equality-Friendly Well-Founded Semantics and Applications to Description Logics
We tackle the problem of defining a well-founded semantics (WFS) for Datalog rules with existentially quantified variables in their heads and negations in their bodies. In partic...
Georg Gottlob, André Hernich, Clemens Kupke...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Improving Twitter Retrieval by Exploiting Structural Information
Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combin...
Zhunchen Luo, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic, Ting W...
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Online Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing Markets
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
Chien-Ju Ho, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Optimizing Payments in Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms for Multi-Parameter Domains
In AI research, mechanism design is typically used to allocate tasks and resources to agents holding private information about their values for possible allocations. In this conte...
Lachlan Thomas Dufton, Victor Naroditskiy, Maria P...