While a user’s preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learni...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Bo Long, Alexander J. Smola, Hon...
Privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) is an important topic to both industry and academia. In general there are two approaches to tackling PPDM, one is statistics-based and the oth...
Patrick Sharkey, Hongwei Tian, Weining Zhang, Shou...
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
Continuous speech input for ASR processing is usually presegmented into speech stretches by pauses. In this paper, we propose that smaller, prosodically defined units can be ident...
Yi-Fen Liu, Shu-Chuan Tseng, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang,...
Action set selection in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is an area of research that has received little attention. On the other hand, the set of actions available to an MDP agent...