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EDM
2008
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15 years 8 months ago
Using Item-type Performance Covariance to Improve the Skill Model of an Existing Tutor
Using data from an existing pre-algebra computer-based tutor, we analyzed the covariance of item-types with the goal of describing a more effective way to assign skill labels to it...
Philip I. Pavlik, Hao Cen, Lili Wu, Kenneth R. Koe...
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Filaments of Meaning in Word Space
Word space models, in the sense of vector space models built on distributional data taken from texts, are used to model semantic relations between words. We argue that the high dim...
Jussi Karlgren, Anders Holst, Magnus Sahlgren
UAI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Active Model Selection
Classical learning assumes the learner is given a labeled data sample, from which it learns a model. The field of Active Learning deals with the situation where the learner begins...
Omid Madani, Daniel J. Lizotte, Russell Greiner
SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Bridging the lexical chasm: statistical approaches to answer-finding
Abstract This paper investigates whether a machine can automatically learn the task of finding, within a large collection of candidate responses, the answers to questions. The lea...
Adam L. Berger, Rich Caruana, David Cohn, Dayne Fr...
COLT
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Suboptimal Behavior of Bayes and MDL in Classification Under Misspecification
We show that forms of Bayesian and MDL inference that are often applied to classification problems can be inconsistent. This means that there exists a learning problem such that fo...
Peter Grünwald, John Langford