... conform to new
knowledge is impractical, but machinelearning metho ds mightbe
able to trackmuchofit.
1.1.2 Wellsprings of Machine Learning
Workinmachine learning is nowconverging from several sources. ... ers (1,0) or of categorical variables
Introduction to Machine Learning
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INTRODUCTION
TO
MACHINE LEARNING
AN EARLY DRAFT OF A PROPOSED
TEXTBOOK
Nils ... eed-up learning with metho ds that create gen
uinely new
functions|ones that might give dierent results after learning than they
did b efore. Wesay that the latter metho ds involve inductive learning. ...
... otherwise notified, the term machinelearning will be used to
denote inductive learning.
During the early days of machinelearning research, computer scientists
developed learning algorithms based ... provides an overview of machinelearning techniques and
shows the strong relevance between typical multimedia content analysis and
machine learning tasks. The overview of machinelearning techniques ... have
aroused people’s enthusiasms in machine learning, and have led to a spate of
new machinelearning text books. Noteworthily, among the ever growing list
of machinelearning books, many of them attempt...
... AFNLP
Extracting Comparative Sentences from Korean Text Documents Us-
ing Comparative Lexical Patterns and MachineLearning Techniques
Seon Yang
Department of Computer Engineering,
Dong-A University,
840 ... more elements of the keyword
set is called a comparative-sentence candidate.
Finally, we use machinelearning techniques to
eliminate non-comparative sentences from the
candidates. As a result, ... non-comparative sen-
tences from comparative sentence candidates
with a CKL2 keyword, we employ machine
learning techniques (MEM and Naïve Bayes).
For feature extraction from each comparative-
sentence...
... to unsupervised learning to overcome the
lack of training data. However their model also
has the same problem. McDonald (McDonald,
2006) independently proposed a new machine
learning approach. ... Association for Computational Linguistics
Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine
Learning Approaches
Yuya Unno
1
Takashi Ninomiya
2
Yusuke Miyao
1
Jun’ichi Tsujii
134
1
Department ... former problem, we apply a maxi-
mum entropy model to Knight and Marcu’s model
to introduce machinelearning features that are de-
fined not only for CFG rules but also for other
characteristics...
... pages 104–111.
J. R. Quinlan. 1993. C4.5: Programs for Machine
Learning. Morgan Kaufmann.
W. M. Soon, H. T. Ng, and D. Lim. 2001. A machine
learning approach to coreference resolution of noun
phrases. ... selec-
tion and error-driven pruning for machinelearning of
coreference rules. In Proc. of EMNLP, pages 55–62.
V. Ng and C. Cardie. 2002b. Improving machine learn-
ing approaches to coreference ... generate good can-
didate partitions. Given that machinelearning ap-
proaches to the problem have been promising, our
choices will be guided by previous learning- based
coreference systems, as described...
... 1}. Based on a figure by Leslie Kaelbling.
1.2 Supervised learning
We begin our investigation of machinelearning by discussing supervised learning, which is the
form of ML most widely used in practice.
1.2.1 ... Cataloging-in-Publication Information
Murphy, Kevin P.
Machine learning : a probabilistic perspective / Kevin P. Murphy.
p. cm. — (Adaptive computation and machinelearning series)
Includes bibliographical ... Gaussian graphical models * 318
10.3 Inference 319
10.4 Learning 320
10.4.1 Plate notation 320
10.4.2 Learning from complete data 322
10.4.3 Learning with missing and/or latent variables 323
10.5...
... Metabolomics, modelling and machinelearning systems
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126, ... 110–117.
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201–221.
53 Mackay D (1992) Information-based objective func-
tions for active ... modelling and machinelearning systems
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337 Mackay DJC (2003) Information Theory, Inference and
Learning Algorithms....
... 27–35,
Suntec, Singapore, 4 August 2009.
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2009 ACL and AFNLP
Paraphrase Recognition Using MachineLearning to Combine Similarity
Measures
Prodromos Malakasiotis
Department of Informatics
Athens ... correspond
to machine translation evaluation metrics, rather
than string similarity measures, unlike our system.
We plan to examine further how the features of
Finch et al. and other ideas from machine ... INIT+WN+DEP uses ad-
ditional features that measure grammatical rela-
tion similarity. Supervised machinelearning is
used to learn how to combine the resulting fea-
tures. We experimented with a Maximum...
... LFG,
Bergen, Norway.
V. N. Vapnik. 1998. Statistical Learning Theory.
Wiley-Interscience, September.
143
Figure 3: Processing architecture for the machine-
learning- based method.
duce the number of category ... three generic machine
learning algorithms: a memory-based learner
(Daelemans and van den Bosch, 2005), a maxi-
mum entropy classifier (Berger et al., 1996) and a
Support Vector Machine classifier ... setting in the context of au-
tomatically acquiring LFG resources for Spanish
from Cast3LB. Machine- learning- based Cast3LB
tag assignment yields statistically-significantly
improved LFG f-structures...
... criteria. Machinelearning af-
fords a unified framework to compose these crite-
ria into a single metric. In this paper, we have
demonstrated the viability of a regression approach
to learning ... Linguistics.
Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, and Chris Brockett.
2001. A machinelearning approach to the automatic eval-
uation of machine translation. In Proceedings of the 39th
Annual Meeting of ... studies suggest that machine learn-
ing can be applied to develop good auto-
matic evaluation metrics for machine trans-
lated sentences. This paper further ana-
lyzes aspects of learning that impact...
... investigate whether
combining a basic grammar with machine learning
can give better results than a sophisticated gram-
mar combined with machine learning. Because the
datasets will be more imbalanced ... combination of a rule-based
grammar and machine learning. We col-
lected a Dutch text corpus containing 549
definitions and applied a grammar on it.
Machine learning was then applied to im-
prove ... baseline grammars and machine learning
classifiers. In Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,
LREC 2008.
I. Fahmi and G. Bouma. 2006. Learning to iden-
tify...
... data used to build a
machine learning process. The notion of observing data, learning from it, and then
automating some process of recognition is at the heart of machinelearning and forms
the ... exploring machinelearning with
R! Before we proceed to the case studies, however, we will review some R functions
and operations that we will use frequently.
R Basics for Machine Learning
As ... that they can think more clearly about the world in order to make better
decisions.
In machine learning, the learning occurs by extracting as much information from the
data as possible (or reasonable)...
... with machine
learning algorithms that perform classification, clustering and pattern induction
tasks.
• Having a good annotation scheme and accurate annotations are critical for machine
learning ... you start for
designing the features that go into your learning algorithm. The better the features, the
better the performance of the machinelearning algorithm!
Preparing a corpus with annotations ... Entropy
(Maxent), Naive Bayes, Decision trees, and Support Vector Machines (SVMs).
Clustering
Clustering is the name given to machinelearning algorithms that find natural groupings
and patterns from...
... forty: The independence assumption in
information retrieval. In Machine Learning: ECML-98, Tenth European
Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 4–15.
McCallum, A., & Nigam, K. (1998). A comparison ... 155–171.
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cora.tex; 17/02/2000; 10:24; p.45
Automating the Construction of Internet Portals with MachineLearning 9
links to research ... dynamic
programming.
3.2. Spidering as Reinforcement Learning
As an aid to understanding how reinforcement learning relates to spi-
dering, consider the common reinforcement learning task of a mouse
exploring...
... into Active Sen-
tences Using Machine Learning, pages 115–125. Springer
Publisher.
Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, and Hitoshi Isahara. 2002. Com-
parison of three machine- learning methods for Thai part-
of-speech ... using the machine- learning method ex-
plained in Section 3. When multiple target parti-
cles could have been answers in the training data,
we used pairs of them as answers for machine
learning.
The ... separates training data
into each input particle and uses machine
learning for each particle. We also used
numerous rich features for learning. Our
method obtained a high rate of accuracy
(94.30%)....