JMLR
2002
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2002
This paper describes a text chunking system based on a generalization of the Winnow algorithm. We propose a general statistical model for text chunking which we then convert into ...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Recently, sample complexity bounds have been derived for problems involving linear functions such as neural networks and support vector machines. In many of these theoretical stud...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
We consider a finite-state Markov decision problem and establish the convergence of a special case of optimistic policy iteration that involves Monte Carlo estimation of Q-values,...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
A central problem in learning is selection of an appropriate model. This is typically done by estimating the unknown generalization errors of a set of models to be selected from a...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
This paper introduces the problem of combining multiple partitionings of a set of objects into a single consolidated clustering without accessing the features or algorithms that d...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
A single signal processing algorithm can be represented by many mathematically equivalent formulas. However, when these formulas are implemented in code and run on real machines, ...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Approximate Bayesian Gaussian process (GP) classification techniques are powerful nonparametric learning methods, similar in appearance and performance to support vector machines....
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Lyapunov design methods are used widely in control engineering to design controllers that achieve qualitative objectives, such as stabilizing a system or maintaining a system'...
JMLR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Shallow parsers are usually assumed to be trained on noise-free material, drawn from the same distribution as the testing material. However, when either the training set is noisy ...