Next light reading roup: The Combining Classifier: to Train or Not to Train?

Next reading group will take place on:

27 November 2009

Presented by:

Oya Aran

Paper to read:

The Combining Classifier: to Train or Not to Train? by R. Duin
/homes/oaran/Public/papers/duin02combining.pdf

Weighted Kappa: Nominal Scale Agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit Jacob Cohen, Psychological Bulletin,1968

Next Light reading group will take place on:

6th November

Presented by:

Hayley

Paper to read:

Weighted Kappa: Nominal Scale Agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit Jacob Cohen, Psychological Bulletin,1968
/home/userdirs/hhung/E000783444_1.pdf

This paper should be useful to a number of people who may be collecting any type of human annotations.

Suggestion for heavy reading group themes

In continuation of the CRF topic and also concurrently with the dynamic topic models paper we were reading, I suggest that we find a nice tutorial on gaussian processes,
or maybe even spice up the reading group by doing a 'watching group' for next time:
http://nips.cc/Conferences/2006/Program/event.php?ID=4
There's also a text book online by the presenter here:
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/

Following on from this, we can continue Kate's paper on dynamic topic models and after this combine what we've learnt from Gaussian processes with CRFS with this paper:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~th/papers/AltHofSmo-ICML2004.pdf

I haven't read/seen any of this stuff yet so I have no idea whether it would be any good. However, they are by good people and so my gut reaction is that this would be quite a nice theme to continue.

Let me know what you think!

Next reading group will take place on:

[october 23th]

Presented by:

[Dayra]

Paper to read:

[/homes/dscortes/Documents/Papers/readingGroup/IEEEXplore.pdf]

Request for Reading group protocol

Following today when only 2 people turned up for the reading group, could everyone please register their interest (positive or negative) whenever a reading group is coming up? We had agreed that if people were ok to attend, they wouldn't reply to the post.. however, people are just not replying when they can't make it so it can feel a bit like talking to a brick wall.

I am not sure if anyone is actually subscribed to these blogs either so please reply to this post if you have read it!

Hayley

Next heavy reading group on CRFs

Next Heavy reading group will take place on:

[October 16th 2pm]

Presented by:

Hayley

Paper to read:

www.idiap.ch/~hhung/crf.pdf

Following our last heavy reading group conversation, I think this was the paper that was suggested...

Next Light Reading Group

Next reading group will take place on:
Thursday (I'm not here on Friday!) Oct. 1st - 11am

Presented by:
Kate

Paper to read:
NOTE: EXCLUDE section 3 to make it a light read!
www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiLafferty2006a.pdf