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COLT
2000
Springer
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On the Convergence Rate of Good-Turing Estimators
Good-Turing adjustments of word frequencies are an important tool in natural language modeling. In particular, for any sample of words, there is a set of words not occuring in tha...
David A. McAllester, Robert E. Schapire
SIGCSE
1999
ACM
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JDuck: building a software engineering tool in Java as a CS2 project
This paper describes our experiences in having students build a software engineering tool as a course project in a CS2 course. The tool, which we called JDuck Java DocumenterofCo...
Michael W. Godfrey, Dan Grossman
KDD
1998
ACM
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Evaluating Usefulness for Dynamic Classification
This paper develops the concept of usefulness in the context of supervised learning. We argue that usefulness can be used to improve the performance of classification rules (as me...
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh, Charles Taylor, Carsten L...
SEAL
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
SEAL
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Information Operator Scheduling by Genetic Algorithms
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss an approach to an operator scheduling problem in a large organization over time with the aim of maintaining service quality and reducing total l...
Takeshi Yamada, Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Ryohei Nakano