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AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Fast Convention Formation in Dynamic Networks Using Topological Knowledge
In this paper, we design a distributed mechanism that is able to create a social convention within a large convention space for multiagent systems (MAS) operating on various topol...
Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, Anita Raja, Ana L. C. Baz...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Acquiring Speech Transcriptions Using Mismatched Crowdsourcing
Transcribed speech is a critical resource for building statistical speech recognition systems. Recent work has looked towards soliciting transcriptions for large speech corpora fr...
Preethi Jyothi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Deep Modeling Complex Couplings within Financial Markets
The global financial crisis occurred in 2008 and its contagion to other regions, as well as the long-lasting impact on different markets, show that it is increasingly important t...
Wei Cao, Liang Hu, Longbing Cao
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Social Media
The potential benefits of mining social media to learn about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are rapidly increasing with the increasing popularity of social media. Unknown ADRs hav...
Andrew Yates, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Social Hierarchical Learning
Abstract—I present the outline for my dissertation work, Social Hierarchical Learning (SHL). SHL leverages and extends the capabilities of state-of-the-art hierarchical learning ...
Bradley Hayes
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
LARS: A Logic-Based Framework for Analyzing Reasoning over Streams
The recent rise of smart applications has drawn interest to logical reasoning over data streams. Different query languages and stream processing/reasoning engines were proposed. H...
Harald Beck, Minh Dao-Tran, Thomas Eiter, Michael ...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Inferring Latent User Properties from Texts Published in Social Media
We demonstrate an approach to predict latent personal attributes including user demographics, online personality, emotions and sentiments from texts published on Twitter. We rely ...
Svitlana Volkova, Yoram Bachrach, Michael Armstron...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
RAIN: Social Role-Aware Information Diffusion
Information diffusion, which studies how information is propagated in social networks, has attracted considerable research effort recently. However, most existing approaches do no...
Yang Yang, Jie Tang, Cane Wing-ki Leung, Yizhou Su...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
The Queue Method: Handling Delay, Heuristics, Prior Data, and Evaluation in Bandits
Current algorithms for the standard multi-armed bandit problem have good empirical performance and optimal regret bounds. However, real-world problems often differ from the standa...
Travis Mandel, Yun-En Liu, Emma Brunskill, Zoran P...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Lazier Than Lazy Greedy
Is it possible to maximize a monotone submodular function faster than the widely used lazy greedy algorithm (also known as accelerated greedy), both in theory and practice? In thi...
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru, A...