In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) provides a framework for training a discriminative classifier from data with ambiguous labels. This framework is well suited for the task of learni...
Carolina Galleguillos, Boris Babenko, Andrew Rabin...
This paper introduces a hierarchical Markov model that can learn and infer a user's daily movements through the commue model uses multiple levels of abstraction in order to b...
Graphical models such as Bayesian Networks (BNs) are being increasingly applied to various computer vision problems. One bottleneck in using BN is that learning the BN model param...
Bayesian text classifiers face a common issue which is referred to as data sparsity problem, especially when the size of training data is very small. The frequently used Laplacian...