Automatic short answer grading (ASAG) is the automated process of assessing answers based on natural language using computation methods and machine learning algorithms. Development of large-scale smart education systems on one hand and the importance of assessment as a key factor in the learning process and its confronted challenges, on the other hand, have significantly increased the need for ...

Automatic short answer grading (ASAG) is the automated process of assessing answers based on natural language using computation methods and machine learning algorithms. Development of large-scale smart education systems on one hand and the importance of assessment as a key factor in the learning process and its confronted challenges, on the other hand, have significantly increased the need for ...

Most learning algorithms for factor graphs require complete inference over the dataset or an instance before making an update to the parameters. SampleRank is a rank-based learning framework that alleviates this problem by updating the parameters during inference. Most semi-supervised learning algorithms also rely on the complete inference, i.e. calculating expectations or MAP configurations. W...

Learning representations of data, and in particular learning features for a subsequent prediction task, has been a fruitful area of research delivering impressive empirical results in recent years. However, relatively little is understood about what makes a representation ‘good’. We propose the idea of a risk gap induced by representation learning for a given prediction context, which measures ...

In this paper we propose a framework for supervised and semi-supervised learning based on reformulating the learning problem as a regularized Fredholm integral equation. Our approach fits naturally into the kernel framework and can be interpreted as constructing new data-dependent kernels, which we call Fredholm kernels. We proceed to discuss the “noise assumption” for semi-supervised learning ...

Semi supervised methods involve converting unlabelled data into high quality labelled data that can be used to improve the performance of conventional supervised methods that had previously been given a small training set. Unlabelled data has also been shown to be helpful in a supervised setting called ‘bridging’ where unlabelled data have been used to help relate labelled instances to those th...

This work tackles the problem of learning a robust classification function from a very small sample set when a related but unlabeled data set is provided. To this end we define a new semi-supervised method that is based on a stability criterion. We successfully apply our proposal in the specific case of automatic diagnosis of intestinal motility disease using video capsule endoscopy.

We propose a semi-supervised framework to handle diverse data formats or data with mixedtype attributes. Our preliminary results in clustering data with mixed numerical and categorical attributes show that the proposed semi-supervised framework gives better clustering results in the categorical domain. Thus the seeds obtained from clustering the numerical domain give an additional knowledge to ...