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AUSAI
2003
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Choosing Learning Algorithms Using Sign Tests with High Replicability
An important task in machine learning is determining which learning algorithm works best for a given data set. When the amount of data is small the same data needs to be used repea...
Remco R. Bouckaert
AAAI
2006
15 years 4 months ago
When Is Constrained Clustering Beneficial, and Why?
Several researchers have illustrated that constraints can improve the results of a variety of clustering algorithms. However, there can be a large variation in this improvement, e...
Kiri Wagstaff, Sugato Basu, Ian Davidson
DCOSS
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
When Birds Die: Making Population Protocols Fault-Tolerant
In the population protocol model introduced by Angluin et al. [2], a collection of agents, which are modelled by finite state machines, move around unpredictably and have pairwise ...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Rachid ...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
When documents are very long, BM25 fails!
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CSCW
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Don't look stupid: avoiding pitfalls when recommending research papers
If recommenders are to help people be more productive, they need to support a wide variety of real-world information seeking tasks, such as those found when seeking research paper...
Sean M. McNee, Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan