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PAMI
2012
12 years 1 months ago
UBoost: Boosting with the Universum
—It has been shown that the Universum data, which do not belong to either class of the classification problem of interest, may contain useful prior domain knowledge for training...
Chunhua Shen, Peng Wang, Fumin Shen, Hanzi Wang
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
A Generalized Method for Integrating Rule-based Knowledge into Inductive Methods Through Virtual Sample Creation
Hybrid learning methods use theoretical knowledge of a domain and a set of classified examples to develop a method for classification. Methods that use domain knowledge have been ...
Ridwan Al Iqbal
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Partial Problem Spaces Learned from Users' Interactions to Provide Key Tutoring Services in Procedural and Ill-Define
In previous works, we showed how sequential pattern mining can be used to extract a partial problem space from logged user interactions for a procedural and ill-defined domain wher...
Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkambou, Engelbert ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time
We present a random-walk-based approach to learning paraphrases from bilingual parallel corpora. The corpora are represented as a graph in which a node corresponds to a phrase, an...
Stanley Kok, Chris Brockett
ICDM
2010
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Comparing Vessel Trajectories Using Geographical Domain Knowledge and Alignments
Abstract--This paper presents a similarity measure that combines low-level trajectory information with geographical domain knowledge to compare vessel trajectories. The similarity ...
Gerben de Vries, Willem Robert van Hage, Maarten v...
IJCV
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Using the Particle Filter Approach to Building Partial Correspondences Between Shapes
Abstract Constructing correspondencesbetween points characterizing one shape with those characterizing another is crucial to understanding what the two shapes have in common. These...
Rolf Lakämper, Marc Sobel
RAS
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Robot task planning using semantic maps
Task planning for mobile robots usually relies solely on spatial information and on shallow domain knowledge, like labels attached to objects and places. Although spatial informat...
Cipriano Galindo, Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal,...
VLDB
2002
ACM
132views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
An Automated System for Web Portal Personalization
This paper proposes a system for personalization of web portals. A speci c implementation is discussed in reference to a web portal containing a news feed service. Techniques are ...
Charu C. Aggarwal, Philip S. Yu
AIR
2005
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13 years 11 months ago
The Explanatory Power of Symbolic Similarity in Case-Based Reasoning
A desired capability of automatic problem solvers is that they can explain the results. Such explanations should justify that the solution proposed by the problem solver arises fr...
Enric Plaza, Eva Armengol, Santiago Ontañ&o...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
113views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Supporting OLAP operations over imperfectly integrated taxonomies
OLAP is an important tool in decision support. With the help of domain knowledge, such as hierarchies of attribute values, OLAP helps the user observe the effects of various decis...
Yan Qi 0002, K. Selçuk Candan, Jun'ichi Tat...