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JMLR
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Cumulative Distribution Networks and the Derivative-sum-product Algorithm: Models and Inference for Cumulative Distribution Func
We present a class of graphical models for directly representing the joint cumulative distribution function (CDF) of many random variables, called cumulative distribution networks...
Jim C. Huang, Brendan J. Frey
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Specialized Models and Ranking for Coreference Resolution
This paper investigates two strategies for improving coreference resolution: (1) training separate models that specialize in particular types of mentions (e.g., pronouns versus pr...
Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Distribution-Independent Evolvability of Linear Threshold Functions
Valiant’s (2007) model of evolvability models the evolutionary process of acquiring useful functionality as a restricted form of learning from random examples. Linear threshold ...
Vitaly Feldman
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Structured ranking learning using cumulative distribution networks
Ranking is at the heart of many information retrieval applications. Unlike standard regression or classification in which we predict outputs independently, in ranking we are inter...
Jim C. Huang, Brendan J. Frey