We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
Sequential pattern mining is an active field in the domain of knowledge discovery and has been widely studied for over a decade by data mining researchers. More and more, with the ...
We consider the problem of finding officially unrecognized side effects of drugs. By submitting queries to the Web involving a given drug name, it is possible to retrieve pages co...
Carlo Curino, Yuanyuan Jia, Bruce Lambert, Patrici...
Using a ground truth extracted from the Wikipedia, and a ground truth created through manual assessment, we show that the apparent performance advantage seen in machine learning a...