Traditional information retrieval systems use query words to identify relevant documents. In difficult retrieval tasks, however, one needs access to a wealth of background knowled...
Face detection is a canonical example of a rare event detection problem, in which target patterns occur with much lower frequency than nontargets. Out of millions of face-sized wi...
Background: Feature selection is an approach to overcome the 'curse of dimensionality' in complex researches like disease classification using microarrays. Statistical m...
Feature selection for unsupervised tasks is particularly challenging, especially when dealing with text data. The increase in online documents and email communication creates a nee...
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian, Stewart Massie
Signature-driven spam detection provides an alternative to machine learning approaches and can be very effective when near-duplicates of essentially the same message are sent in h...
Aleksander Kolcz, Abdur Chowdhury, Joshua Alspecto...