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ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Information-theoretic metric learning
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A multilingual usage consultation tool based on internet searching: more than a search engine, less than QA
We present a usage consultation tool, based on Internet searching, for language learners. When a user enters a string of words for which he wants to find usages, the system sends ...
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi Nakagawa
KDD
2006
ACM
165views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Outlier detection by sampling with accuracy guarantees
An effective approach to detect anomalous points in a data set is distance-based outlier detection. This paper describes a simple sampling algorithm to efficiently detect distance...
Mingxi Wu, Chris Jermaine
CHI
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Modeling pointing at targets of arbitrary shapes
We investigate pointing at graphical targets of arbitrary shapes. We first describe a previously proposed probabilistic Fitts' law model [7] which, unlike previous models tha...
Tovi Grossman, Nicholas Kong, Ravin Balakrishnan
PODS
2004
ACM
139views Database» more  PODS 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
On Preservation under Homomorphisms and Unions of Conjunctive Queries
Unions of conjunctive queries, also known as select-project-join-union queries, are the most frequently asked queries in relational database systems. These queries are definable b...
Albert Atserias, Anuj Dawar, Phokion G. Kolaitis