Recent web search techniques augment traditional text matching with a global notion of "importance" based on the linkage structure of the web, such as in Google's P...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...
A conversational recommender system iteratively shows a small set of options for its user to choose between. In order to select these options, the system may analyze the queries tr...
Walid Trabelsi, Nic Wilson, Derek G. Bridge, Franc...
In this note we consider a simple reformulation of the traditional power iteration algorithm for computing the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. Rather than communicate t...
We examine linear program (LP) approaches to boosting and demonstrate their efficient solution using LPBoost, a column generation based simplex method. We formulate the problem as...
Ayhan Demiriz, Kristin P. Bennett, John Shawe-Tayl...