In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Classification problems in critical applications such as health care or security often require very high reliability because of the high costs of errors. In order to achieve this r...
We introduce a boosting framework to solve a classification problem with added manifold and ambient regularization costs. It allows for a natural extension of boosting into both s...
Nicolas Loeff, David A. Forsyth, Deepak Ramachandr...
Abstract. As any other classification task, Word Sense Disambiguation requires a large number of training examples. These examples, which are easily obtained for most of the tasks,...
We present a novel approach to mine word similarity in Textual Case Based Reasoning. We exploit indirect associations of words, in addition to direct ones for estimating their simi...
Sutanu Chakraborti, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lot...