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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Computable social patterns from sparse sensor data
We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social foo...
Dinh Q. Phung, Brett Adams, Svetha Venkatesh
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
DiscLDA: Discriminative Learning for Dimensionality Reduction and Classification
Probabilistic topic models have become popular as methods for dimensionality reduction in collections of text documents or images. These models are usually treated as generative m...
Simon Lacoste-Julien, Fei Sha, Michael I. Jordan
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Asynchronous Distributed Learning of Topic Models
Distributed learning is a problem of fundamental interest in machine learning and cognitive science. In this paper, we present asynchronous distributed learning algorithms for two...
Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max Welling
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...