Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
We attack the task of predicting which news-stories are more appealing to a given audience by comparing ‘most popular stories’, gathered from various online news outlets, over ...
Elena Hensinger, Ilias N. Flaounas, Nello Cristian...
AUC(Area Under the Curve) of ROC(Receiver Operating Characteristics) has been recently used as a measure for ranking performanceof learning algorithms. In this paper, wepresent a ...
We present a novel approach to learn a kernelbased regression function. It is based on the use of conical combinations of data-based parameterized kernels and on a new stochastic ...
Pierre Machart, Thomas Peel, Liva Ralaivola, Sandr...
Selecting the optimal kernel is an important and difficult challenge in applying kernel methods to pattern recognition. To address this challenge, multiple kernel learning (MKL) ...