We develop a hierarchical, nonparametric statistical model for wavelet representations of natural images. Extending previous work on Gaussian scale mixtures, wavelet coefficients ...
Jyri J. Kivinen, Erik B. Sudderth, Michael I. Jord...
We investigate the problem of learning a widely-used latent-variable model – the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or “topic” model – using distributed computation, where ...
David Newman, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max...
This paper addresses Named Entity Mining (NEM), in which we mine knowledge about named entities such as movies, games, and books from a huge amount of data. NEM is potentially use...
Korean is an agglutinative language that does not have explicit word boundaries. It is also a highly inflective language that exhibits severe coarticulation effects. These charac...
Sakriani Sakti, Andrew M. Finch, Ryosuke Isotani, ...
One of the most common performance measures in selection and management of projects is the Net Present Value (NPV). In the paper, we study a case when initial data about the NPV p...