— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...
We present an algorithm for identifying putative non-coding RNA (ncRNA) using an RCSG (RNA Common-Structural Grammar) and show the effectiveness of the algorithm. The algorithm con...
Jin-Wu Nam, Je-Gun Joung, Y. S. Ahn, Byoung-Tak Zh...
Abstract. This paper studies the properties and performance of models for estimating local probability distributions which are used as components of larger probabilistic systems â€...
Kristina Toutanova, Mark Mitchell, Christopher D. ...
Abstract. There is a growing discrepancy between the creation of digital content and its actual employment and usefulness in a learning society. Technologies for recording lectures...
Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing di...
Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder P. Si...