We present a novel link-based ranking algorithm RBS, which may be viewed as an extension of PageRank by back-step feature. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Se...
We present a language-independent and unsupervised algorithm for the segmentation of words into morphs. The algorithm is based on a new generative probabilistic model, which makes...
Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy tailored to the problem of statistical disclosure control: how to release statistical information about a set of people without ...
We study the problem of producing a global ranking of items given pairwise ranking information, when the items to be ranked arrive in an online fashion. We study both the maximizat...
Bisubmodularity extends the concept of submodularity to set functions with two arguments. We show how bisubmodular maximization leads to richer value-of-information problems, usin...