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ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
John Duchi, Lester W. Mackey, Michael I. Jordan
JODL
2006
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15 years 7 months ago
MIT's CWSpace project: packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace
This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protoc...
William Reilly, Robert Wolfe, MacKenzie Smith
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The paradox of the assisted user: guidance can be counterproductive
This paper investigates the influence of interface styles on problem solving performance. It is often assumed that performance on problem solving tasks improves when users are ass...
Christof van Nimwegen, Daniel D. Burgos, Herre van...
HRI
2006
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
FOCUS: a generalized method for object discovery for robots that observe and interact with humans
The essence of the signal-to-symbol problem consists of associating a symbolic description of an object (e.g., a chair) to a signal (e.g., an image) that captures the real object....
Manuela M. Veloso, Paul E. Rybski, Felix von Hunde...
HIP
2005
Springer
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16 years 20 days ago
Building Segmentation Based Human-Friendly Human Interaction Proofs (HIPs)
Human interaction proofs (HIPs) have become common place on the internet due to their effectiveness in deterring automated abuse of online services intended for humans. However, th...
Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Y. Simard...