Many scalable data mining tasks rely on active learning to provide the most useful accurately labeled instances. However, what if there are multiple labeling sources (`oracles...
This paper describes and evaluates privacy-friendly methods for extracting quasi-social networks from browser behavior on user-generated content sites, for the purpose of finding ...
Foster J. Provost, Brian Dalessandro, Rod Hook, Xi...
In this study, we formalize a multi-focal learning problem, where training data are partitioned into several different focal groups and the prediction model will be learned within...
Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Ramendra K. Sahoo...
Clustering validation is a long standing challenge in the clustering literature. While many validation measures have been developed for evaluating the performance of clustering al...
In traditional text clustering methods, documents are represented as "bags of words" without considering the semantic information of each document. For instance, if two ...
Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Caimei Lu, E. K. Park, ...