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...
Identifying user-dependent information that can be automatically collected helps build a user model by which 1) to predict what the user wants to do next and 2) to do relevant pre...
We present topic-regression multi-modal Latent Dirichlet Allocation (tr-mmLDA), a novel statistical topic model for the task of image and video annotation. At the heart of our new...
Duangmanee Putthividhya, Hagai Thomas Attias, Srik...
: Context-aware ubiquitous computing environments tend to be highly distributed and heterogeneous, while also featuring increased dynamism as elements, devices and middleware compo...
John Soldatos, Kostas Stamatis, Siamak Azodolmolky...
Many KDD systems incorporate an implicit or explicit preference for simpler models, but this use of "Occam's razor" has been strongly criticized by several authors (...