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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Two-stage language models for information retrieval
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
UAI
2003
13 years 8 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Information Theoretic Framework for Multi-view Learning
In the multi-view learning paradigm, the input variable is partitioned into two different views X1 and X2 and there is a target variable Y of interest. The underlying assumption i...
Karthik Sridharan, Sham M. Kakade
AAAI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Heuristic Search and Information Visualization Methods for School Redistricting
We describe an application of AI search and information visualization techniques to the problem of school redistricting, in which students are assigned to home schools within a co...
Marie desJardins, Blazej Bulka, Ryan Carr, Andrew ...