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JETAI
2000
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Contextual reasoning distilled
In this paper we provide a foundation of a theory of contextual reasoning from the perspective of a theory of knowledge representation. Starting from the so-called metaphor of the...
Massimo Benerecetti, Paolo Bouquet, Chiara Ghidini
ML
1998
ACM
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The Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model: Analysis and Applications
We introduce, analyze and demonstrate a recursive hierarchical generalization of the widely used hidden Markov models, which we name Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models (HHMM). Our m...
Shai Fine, Yoram Singer, Naftali Tishby
ML
2007
ACM
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Surrogate maximization/minimization algorithms and extensions
Abstract Surrogate maximization (or minimization) (SM) algorithms are a family of algorithms that can be regarded as a generalization of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms. A...
Zhihua Zhang, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan Yeung
SAC
2008
ACM
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Error estimation in wireless sensor networks
We present an analogy between the operation of a Wireless Sensor Network and the sampling and reconstruction of a signal. We measure the impact of three factors on the quality of ...
Alejandro César Frery, Heitor Ramos, Jos&ea...
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...