Several authors have suggested viewing boosting as a gradient descent search for a good fit in function space. At each iteration observations are re-weighted using the gradient of...
We present and discuss the important business problem of estimating the effect of retention efforts on the Lifetime Value of a customer in the Telecommunications industry. We disc...
Saharon Rosset, Einat Neumann, Uri Eick, Nurit Vat...
—On participatory Websites, users provide opinions about products, with both overall ratings and textual reviews. In this paper, we propose an approach to accurately estimate fea...
Chong Long, Jie Zhang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, ...
Abstract. The Factored Markov Decision Process (FMDP) framework is a standard representation for sequential decision problems under uncertainty where the state is represented as a ...
Olga Kozlova, Olivier Sigaud, Pierre-Henri Wuillem...
In this paper we present a new approach for measuring the relatedness between text segments, based on implicit semantic links between their words, as offered by a word thesaurus, n...
George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Michalis Vaz...