A novel feature selection methodology is proposed with the concept of mutual information. The proposed methodology effectively circumvents two major problems in feature selection ...
Choice-based conjoint analysis builds models of consumer preferences over products with answers gathered in questionnaires. Our main goal is to bring tools from the machine learni...
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) participated in TREC-2004, submitting 18 runs. We focus on studying the problem of the combination of the user- and quer...
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
Over the last two decades, simulation of construction operations has gained momentum in its ability to provide solutions and understand complex problems. However, there still rema...