Statistical language models estimate the probability of a word occurring in a given context. The most common language models rely on a discrete enumeration of predictive contexts ...
John Blitzer, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Sa...
This paper shows that the accuracy of learned text classifiers can be improved by augmenting a small number of labeled training documents with a large pool of unlabeled documents. ...
Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, Sebastian Thrun, Tom...
Much like relational probabilistic models, the need for relational preference models arises naturally in real-world applications where the set of object classes is fixed, but obj...
In this paper, it is shown how to extract a hypothesis with small risk from the ensemble of hypotheses generated by an arbitrary on-line learning algorithm run on an independent an...
Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mi...