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BIOID
2008
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Promoting Diversity in Gaussian Mixture Ensembles: An Application to Signature Verification
Abstract. Classifiers based on Gaussian mixture models are good performers in many pattern recognition tasks. Unlike decision trees, they can be described as stable classifier: a s...
Jonas Richiardi, Andrzej Drygajlo, Laetitia Todesc...
LREC
2010
145views Education» more  LREC 2010»
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Combining Resources: Taxonomy Extraction from Multiple Dictionaries
The idea that dictionaries are a good source for (computational) information has been around for a long while, and the extraction of taxonomic information from them is something t...
Rogelio Nazar, Maarten Janssen
LREC
2010
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FIDJI: Web Question-Answering at Quaero 2009
This paper presents the participation of FIDJI system to the Web Question-Answering evaluation campaign organized by Quaero in 2009. FIDJI is an open-domain question-answering sys...
Xavier Tannier, Véronique Moriceau
SODA
2003
ACM
121views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
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Competitiveness via consensus
We introduce the following consensus estimate problem. Several processors hold private and possibly different lower bounds on a value. The processors do not communicate with each ...
Andrew V. Goldberg, Jason D. Hartline
NIPS
1997
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Learning to Order Things
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer