This paper proposes a human age estimation method using Ranking SVM method. Given a face image, most previous methods estimate the human age directly. However, the face images from the same age vary so much that it’s really a difficult problem to estimate the human age accurately. In this work, we adopt an alternative way to estimate the human age. First, the rank relationship of the ages is le...

This paper presents our method to retrieve relevant queries given a new question in the context of Discovery Challenge: Learning to Re-Ranking Questions for Community Question Answering competition. In order to do that, a set of learning to rank methods was investigated to select an appropriate method. The selected method was optimized on training data by using a search strategy. After optimizi...

In this paper, a preference aggregation method is developed for ranking alternative courses of actions by combining preference rankings of alternatives given on individual criteria or by individual decision makers. In the method, preference rankings are viewed as constraints on alternative utilities, which are normalized, and linear programming models are constructed to estimate utility interva...

a method based on electrical capacitance tomography (ect) and an improved least squares support vector machine (ls-svm) is proposed for void fraction measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow. in the modeling stage, to solve the two problems in ls-svm, pruning skills are employed to make ls-svm sparse and robust; then the real-coded genetic algorithm is introduced to solve the difficult problem of ...

The methods of Invisible Invariants and Invisible Ranking were developed originally in order to verify temporal properties of parameterized systems in a fully automatic manner. These methods are based on an instantiate-projectand-generalize heuristic for the automatic generation of auxiliary constructs and a small model property implying that it is sufficient to check validity of a deductive ru...

Chinese character riddle is a riddle game in which the riddle solution is a single Chinese character. It is closely connected with the shape, pronunciation or meaning of Chinese characters. The riddle description (sentence) is usually composed of phrases with rich linguistic phenomena (such as pun, simile, and metaphor), which are associated to different parts (namely radicals) of the solution ...

We present the results of a large-scale, end-to-end human evaluation of various sentiment summarization models. The evaluation shows that users have a strong preference for summarizers that model sentiment over non-sentiment baselines, but have no broad overall preference between any of the sentiment-based models. However, an analysis of the human judgments suggests that there are identifiable ...

With the progress in machine translation, it becomes more subtle to develop the evaluation metric capturing the systems’ differences in comparison to the human translations. In contrast to the current efforts in leveraging more linguistic information to depict translation quality, this paper takes the thread of combining language independent features for a robust solution to MT evaluation metri...