Symbolic reasoning is a well understood and effective approach to handling reasoning over formally represented knowledge; however, simple symbolic inference systems necessarily sl...
Matthew E. Taylor, Cynthia Matuszek, Pace Reagan S...
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malwa...
Steven Gianvecchio, Mengjun Xie, Zhengyu Wu, Haini...
Reward shaping is a well-known technique applied to help reinforcement-learning agents converge more quickly to nearoptimal behavior. In this paper, we introduce social reward sha...
Monica Babes, Enrique Munoz de Cote, Michael L. Li...
Recent studies in protein sequence analysis have leveraged the power of unlabeled data. For example, the profile and mismatch neighborhood kernels have shown significant improveme...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...