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ICMLA
2008
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Detection of Sequential Outliers Using a Variable Length Markov Model
Mining for outliers in sequential databases is crucial to forward appropriate analysis of data. Therefore, many approaches for the discovery of such anomalies have been proposed. ...
Cécile Low-Kam, Anne Laurent, Maguelonne Te...
GEM
2008
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Evaluating a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm on the Chess Endgame Problem
Classifying the endgame positions in Chess can be challenging for humans and is known to be a difficult task in machine learning. An evolutionary algorithm would seem to be the ide...
Wayne Iba, Kelsey Marshman, Benjamin Fisk
ESANN
2008
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Learning to play Tetris applying reinforcement learning methods
In this paper the application of reinforcement learning to Tetris is investigated, particulary the idea of temporal difference learning is applied to estimate the state value funct...
Alexander Groß, Jan Friedland, Friedhelm Sch...
EMNLP
2008
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Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
The Named Entity Recognition (NER) task has been garnering significant attention in NLP as it helps improve the performance of many natural language processing applications. In th...
Yassine Benajiba, Mona T. Diab, Paolo Rosso
EMNLP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text
Code-switching is an interesting linguistic phenomenon commonly observed in highly bilingual communities. It consists of mixing languages in the same conversational event. This pa...
Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu
ESANN
2007
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How to process uncertainty in machine learning?
Uncertainty is a popular phenomenon in machine learning and a variety of methods to model uncertainty at different levels has been developed. The aim of this paper is to motivate ...
Barbara Hammer, Thomas Villmann
ESANN
2007
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Deploying SDP for machine learning
We discuss the use in machine learning of a general type of convex optimisation problem known as semi-definite programming (SDP) [1]. We intend to argue that SDP’s arise quite n...
Tijl De Bie
LREC
2010
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United we Stand: Improving Sentiment Analysis by Joining Machine Learning and Rule Based Methods
In the past, we have succesfully used machine learning approaches for sentiment analysis. In the course of those experiments, we observed that our machine learning method, althoug...
Vassiliki Rentoumi, Stefanos Petrakis, Manfred Kle...
LREC
2010
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Design and Development of Part-of-Speech-Tagging Resources for Wolof (Niger-Congo, spoken in Senegal)
In this paper, we report on the design of a part-of-speech-tagset for Wolof and on the creation of a semi-automatically annotated gold standard. The main motivation for this resou...
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Jonas Kuhn, Sina Zarrie&szl...
LREC
2010
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Corpora for Automatically Learning to Map Natural Language Questions into SQL Queries
Automatically translating natural language into machine-readable instructions is one of major interesting and challenging tasks in Natural Language (NL) Processing. This problem c...
Alessandra Giordani, Alessandro Moschitti