State-of-the-art story link detection systems, that is, systems that determine whether two stories are about the same event or linked, are usually based on the cosine-similarity m...
The tutorial explains the benefits of measuring usability as part of a user-centred design process, and introduces the participants to the methodology for usability measurement dev...
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
Graph-based semi-supervised learning has gained considerable
interests in the past several years thanks to its effectiveness
in combining labeled and unlabeled data through
labe...
Standard compressive sensing results state that to exactly recover an s sparse signal in Rp , one requires O(s · log p) measurements. While this bound is extremely useful in prac...