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ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
MTForest: Ensemble Decision Trees based on Multi-Task Learning
Many ensemble methods, such as Bagging, Boosting, Random Forest, etc, have been proposed and widely used in real world applications. Some of them are better than others on noisefre...
Qing Wang, Liang Zhang, Mingmin Chi, Jiankui Guo
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Hierarchical explanation of inference in Bayesian networks that represent a population of independent agents
This paper describes a novel method for explaining Bayesian network (BN) inference when the network is modeling a population of conditionally independent agents, each of which is m...
Peter Sutovskú, Gregory F. Cooper
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Finding Key Bloggers, One Post At A Time
Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Cost-sensitive Iterative Abductive Reasoning with abstractions
tractions Gianluca Torta1 and Daniele Theseider Dupr
Gianluca Torta, Daniele Theseider Dupré, Lu...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Structure segmentation and recognition in images guided by structural constraint propagation
In some application domains, such as medical imaging, the objects that compose the scene are known as well as some of their properties and their spatial arrangement. We can take ad...
Olivier Nempont, Jamal Atif, Elsa D. Angelini, Isa...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Addressing Temporal Aspects of Privacy-Related Norms
Abstract. Agents interacting in open environments such as Internet are often in charge of personal information. In order to protect the privacy of human users, such agents have to ...
Guillaume Piolle, Yves Demazeau
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Author Identification Using a Tensor Space Representation
Author identification is a text categorization task with applications in intelligence, criminal law, computer forensics, etc. Usually, in such cases there is shortage of training t...
Spyridon Plakias, Efstathios Stamatatos
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Single-peaked consistency and its complexity
Abstract. A common way of dealing with the paradoxes of preference aggregation consists in restricting the domain of admissible preferences. The most well-known such restriction is...
Bruno Escoffier, Jérôme Lang, Meltem ...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Talking Points in Metaphor: A Concise Usage-based Representation for Figurative Processing
Abstract. An effective speaker can use metaphor to communicate a wealth of propositions and affective attitudes with a single juxtaposition of ideas [12,8,6,10,7,3,15]. But as such...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao