Automated text categorisation systems learn a generalised hypothesis from large numbers of labelled examples. However, in many domains labelled data is scarce and expensive to obta...
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) model sequential data in many fields such as text/speech processing and biosignal analysis. Active learning algorithms learn faster and/or better by cl...
With the growing use of distributed information networks, there is an increasing need for algorithmic and system solutions for data-driven knowledge acquisition using distributed,...
Doina Caragea, Jaime Reinoso, Adrian Silvescu, Vas...
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...