The rapid growth of XML adoption has urged for the need of a proper representation for semi-structured documents, where the document structural information has to be taken into ac...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
The kernel-parameter is one of the few tunable parameters in Support Vector machines, controlling the complexity of the resulting hypothesis. Its choice amounts to model selection...
Nello Cristianini, Colin Campbell, John Shawe-Tayl...
We propose a family of kernels between images, defined as kernels between their respective segmentation graphs. The kernels are based on soft matching of subtree-patterns of the r...
Recent work has introduced Boolean kernels with which one can learn linear threshold functions over a feature space containing all conjunctions of length up to k (for any 1 ≤ k ...