Estimating the ratio of two probability density functions (a.k.a. the importance) has recently gathered a great deal of attention since importance estimators can be used for solvi...
Makoto Yamada, Masashi Sugiyama, Gordon Wichern, J...
Abstract. The question answering systems are considered the next generation of search engines. This paper focuses on the first step of this process, which is to search for relevant...
This paper investigates how to automatically create a dialogue control component of a listening agent to reduce the current high cost of manually creating such components. We coll...
Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Min...
A logistic stick-breaking process (LSBP) is proposed for non-parametric clustering of general spatially- or temporally-dependent data, imposing the belief that proximate data are ...
One of central topics of kernel machines in the field of machine learning is a model selection, especially a selection of a kernel or its parameters. In our previous work, we dis...