A Little Black Magic

Voodoo, Black Magic and the Hawaiian Kahuna.

AutoMode: Relational Learning With Less Black Magic

Relational databases are valuable resources for learning novel and interesting relations and concepts. Relational learning algorithms learn the Datalog definition of new relations in terms of the existing relations in the database. In order to constraint the search through the large space of candidate definitions, users must tune the algorithm by specifying a language bias. Unfortunately, speci...

Hoodoo: Black Magic or Healing Art?

A Revival of Little Black Sambo in Japan

Copyright © 2014 Kazuo Mori. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2014 are reserved for SCIRP and the owner of the intellectual property Kazuo M...

Function Words in Authorship Attribution. From Black Magic to Theory?

This position paper focuses on the use of function words in computational authorship attribution. Although recently there have been multiple successful applications of authorship attribution, the field is not particularly good at the explication of methods and theoretical issues, which might eventually compromise the acceptance of new research results in the traditional humanities community. I ...