Certain distinctions made in the lexicon of one language may be redundant when translating into another language. We quantify redundancy among source types by the similarity of th...
Abstract. To select an optimal query evaluation strategy for a path query in an object-oriented database system one has to exploit the available index structures on the path. In a ...
We examine the problem of automatically selecting gestures that are appropriate to use when telling a joke or a short story. Our current application of this is a joke telling huma...
Motivated by a real-world problem, we study a novel budgeted optimization problem where the goal is to optimize an unknown function f(x) given a budget. In our setting, it is not ...
Javad Azimi, Xiaoli Fern, Alan Fern, Elizabeth Bur...
The least-absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is a popular tool for joint estimation and continuous variable selection, especially well-suited for the under-determin...