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COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Finding Metric Structure in Information Theoretic Clustering
We study the problem of clustering discrete probability distributions with respect to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. This problem arises naturally in many applications. Our...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Andrew McGregor
PR
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Relaxational metric adaptation and its application to semi-supervised clustering and content-based image retrieval
The performance of many supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms is very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Previous work in metric learning and ada...
Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung, William K. Cheung
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Modelling Affect in Learning Environments - Motivation and Methods
Emotions have a functional relevance to learning and achievement. Not surprisingly then, affective diagnoses are an important aspect of expert human mentoring. Computerbased learni...
Shazia Afzal, Peter Robinson
COLING
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Maximum Metric Score Training for Coreference Resolution
A large body of prior research on coreference resolution recasts the problem as a two-class classification problem. However, standard supervised machine learning algorithms that m...
Shanheng Zhao, Hwee Tou Ng
ICDM
2005
IEEE
138views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
On Feature Selection through Clustering
We study an algorithm for feature selection that clusters attributes using a special metric and then makes use of the dendrogram of the resulting cluster hierarchy to choose the m...
Richard Butterworth, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Da...