We have developed an automated Japanese essay scoring system called Jess. The system needs expert writings rather than expert raters to build the evaluation model. By detecting st...
As part of a National Science Foundation-funded study, we analyze data from a 2002 Midwest urban random sample survey (n = 167 adults) of differential access to and uses of comput...
Identification of the short DNA sequence motifs that serve as binding targets for transcription factors is an important challenge in bioinformatics. Unsupervised techniques from t...
Shaun Mahony, Panayiotis V. Benos, Terry J. Smith,...
We introduce a novel framework for simultaneous structure and parameter learning in hidden-variable conditional probability models, based on an entropic prior and a solution for i...
Lifting can greatly reduce the cost of inference on firstorder probabilistic graphical models, but constructing the lifted network can itself be quite costly. In online applicatio...