COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
We propose a sequential randomized algorithm, which at each step concentrates on functions having both low risk and low variance with respect to the previous step prediction functi...
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Stability is a common tool to verify the validity of sample based algorithms. In clustering it is widely used to tune the parameters of the algorithm, such as the number k of clust...
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we unify divergence minimization and statistical inference by means of convex duality. In the process of doing so, we prove that the dual of approximate max...
COLT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We consider the design of online master algorithms for combining the predictions from a set of experts where the absolute loss of the master is to be close to the absolut...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, the influence of intonation to recognize dialogue acts from speech is assessed. Assessment is based on an empirical approach: manually tagged data from a spoken-dial...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study of population diversity measure and adaptive control of diversity in the context of a permutation-based algorithm for Traveling Sal...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
It is well-known that naive Bayes performs surprisingly well in classification, but its probability estimation is poor. In many applications, however, a ranking based on class prob...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
The kernel function plays a central role in kernel methods. Most existing methods can only adapt the kernel parameters or the kernel matrix based on empirical data. Recently, Ong e...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
Maintaining compact and competent case bases has become a main topic of Case Based Reasoning (CBR) research. The main goal is to obtain a compact case base (with a reduced number o...
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. We investigate the application of classification techniques to the problem of information extraction (IE). In particular we use support vector machines and several differ...