Although mixed-membership models have achieved great success in unsupervised learning, they have not been widely applied to classification problems. In this paper, we propose a f...
The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
Abstract. A combinatorial random variable is a discrete random variable defined over a combinatorial set (e.g., a power set of a given set). In this paper we introduce combinatoria...
Ron Bekkerman, Mehran Sahami, Erik G. Learned-Mill...
Abstract. Social tagging systems provide methods for users to categorise resources using their own choice of keywords (or "tags") without being bound to a restrictive set...
Morgan Harvey, Mark Baillie, Ian Ruthven, Mark Jam...
Abstract--Statistical approaches to document content modeling typically focus either on broad topics or on discourselevel subtopics of a text. We present an analysis of the perform...
Leonhard Hennig, Thomas Strecker, Sascha Narr, Ern...