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ECTEL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
How Much Assistance Is Helpful to Students in Discovery Learning?
How much help helps in discovery learning? This question is one instance of the assistance dilemma, an important issue in the learning sciences and educational technology research....
Alexander Borek, Bruce M. McLaren, Michael Karabin...
ECTEL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Personalisation of Learning in Virtual Learning Environments
Personalization of learning has become a prominent issue in the educational field, at various levels. This article elaborates a different view on personalisation than what usually ...
Dominique Verpoorten, Christian Glahn, Milos Kravc...
ECTEL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Assessing Collaboration Quality in Synchronous CSCL Problem-Solving Activities: Adaptation and Empirical Evaluation of a Rating
The work described is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration between two research teams of the University of Patras, Greece and the University of Freiburg, Germany, whi...
Georgios Kahrimanis, Anne Meier, Irene-Angelica Ch...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
MABLE: a framework for learning from natural instruction
The Modular Architecture for Bootstrapped Learning Experiments (MABLE) is a system that is being developed to allow humans to teach computers in the most natural manner possible: ...
Roger Mailler, Daniel Bryce, Jiaying Shen, Ciaran ...
ACML
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Injecting Structured Data to Generative Topic Model in Enterprise Settings
Enterprises have accumulated both structured and unstructured data steadily as computing resources improve. However, previous research on enterprise data mining often treats these ...
Han Xiao, Xiaojie Wang, Chao Du
ACML
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Conditional Density Estimation with Class Probability Estimators
Many regression schemes deliver a point estimate only, but often it is useful or even essential to quantify the uncertainty inherent in a prediction. If a conditional density estim...
Eibe Frank, Remco R. Bouckaert
ACML
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Coupled Metric Learning for Face Recognition with Degraded Images
Real-world face recognition systems are sometimes confronted with degraded face images, e.g., low-resolution, blurred, and noisy ones. Traditional two-step methods have limited per...
Bo Li, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
ACML
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Linear Time Model Selection for Mixture of Heterogeneous Components
Abstract: Our main contribution is to propose a novel model selection methodology, expectation minimization of information criterion (EMIC). EMIC makes a significant impact on the...
Ryohei Fujimaki, Satoshi Morinaga, Michinari Momma...