Sciweavers

SIGCSE
2000
ACM
91views Education» more  SIGCSE 2000»
13 years 12 months ago
Machine learning in the liberal arts curriculum
Machine learning is typically considered a graduate-level course with an artificial intelligence course as a prerequisite. However, it does not need to be positioned this way, and...
Clare Bates Congdon
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
APE: learning user's habits to automate repetitive tasks
The APE (Adaptive Programming Environment) project focuses on applying Machine Learning techniques to embed a software assistant into the VisualWorks Smalltalk interactive program...
Jean-David Ruvini, Christophe Dony
IUI
2000
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
A learning agent for wireless news access
We describe a user interface for wireless information devices, specifically designed to facilitate learning about users’ individual interests in daily news stories. User feedbac...
Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani, James Chen
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Lightweight Rule Induction
We propose a new rule induction algorithm for solving classification problems via probability estimation. The main advantage of decision rules is their simplicity and good interp...
Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Mutual Information in Learning Feature Transformations
We present feature transformations useful for exploratory data analysis or for pattern recognition. Transformations are learned from example data sets by maximizing the mutual inf...
Kari Torkkola, William M. Campbell
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Using Knowledge to Speed Learning: A Comparison of Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation and Multi-task Learning
Cognitive modeling with neural networks unrealistically ignores the role of knowledge in learning by starting from random weights. It is likely that effective use of knowledge by ...
Thomas R. Shultz, François Rivest
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Bayesian Framework for Reinforcement Learning
The reinforcement learning problem can be decomposed into two parallel types of inference: (i) estimating the parameters of a model for the underlying process; (ii) determining be...
Malcolm J. A. Strens
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Using Learning by Discovery to Segment Remotely Sensed Images
In this paper, we describe our research in computer-aided image analysis. We have incorporated machine learning methodologies with traditional image processing to perform unsuperv...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Costas Tsatsoulis
ICML
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Discriminative Reranking for Natural Language Parsing
This paper considers approaches which rerank the output of an existing probabilistic parser. The base parser produces a set of candidate parses for each input sentence, with assoc...
Michael Collins