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TOOLS
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Class Algebra for Ontology Reasoning
Class algebra provides a natural framework for sharing of ISA hierarchies between users that may be unaware of each other's definitions. This permits data from relational dat...
Daniel J. Buehrer, Chee-Hwa Lee
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models
When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Optimizing information exchange in cooperative multi-agent systems
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
Claudia V. Goldman, Shlomo Zilberstein
ICONIP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Natural Conjugate Gradient in Variational Inference
Variational methods for approximate inference in machine learning often adapt a parametric probability distribution to optimize a given objective function. This view is especially ...
Antti Honkela, Matti Tornio, Tapani Raiko, Juha Ka...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A database centric view of semantic image annotation and retrieval
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
Gustavo Carneiro, Nuno Vasconcelos