1,171 research outputs found
Yixin Liu Associate Professor of Finance travels to Greece
Thanks to the assistance of a CIE travel grant, I was able to visit Hellenic American Education Center in Greece in the fall of 2013. HAEC is a relatively young university that promotes college education in English. It features a very internationalized student body and faculty as well. During my visit, I got to interact with not only colleagues/students from Greece, but also those from other European countries. I truly feel that this trip has enriched me professionally in many important ways
Neural Collective Entity Linking
Entity Linking aims to link entity mentions in texts to knowledge bases, and
neural models have achieved recent success in this task. However, most existing
methods rely on local contexts to resolve entities independently, which may
usually fail due to the data sparsity of local information. To address this
issue, we propose a novel neural model for collective entity linking, named as
NCEL. NCEL applies Graph Convolutional Network to integrate both local
contextual features and global coherence information for entity linking. To
improve the computation efficiency, we approximately perform graph convolution
on a subgraph of adjacent entity mentions instead of those in the entire text.
We further introduce an attention scheme to improve the robustness of NCEL to
data noise and train the model on Wikipedia hyperlinks to avoid overfitting and
domain bias. In experiments, we evaluate NCEL on five publicly available
datasets to verify the linking performance as well as generalization ability.
We also conduct an extensive analysis of time complexity, the impact of key
modules, and qualitative results, which demonstrate the effectiveness and
efficiency of our proposed method.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, COLING201
Early-stage gas identification using convolutional long short-term neural network with sensor array time series data
Gas identification/classification through pattern recognition techniques based on gas sensor arrays often requires the equilibrium responses or the full traces of time-series data of the sensor array. Leveraging upon the diverse gas sensing kinetics behaviors measured via the sensor array, a computational intelligence-based meta-model is proposed to automatically conduct the feature extraction and subsequent gas identification using time-series data during the transitional phase before reaching equilibrium. The time-series data contains implicit temporal dependency/correlation that is worth being characterized to enhance the gas identification performance and reliability. In this context, a tailored approach so-called convolutional long short-term memory (CLSTM) neural network is developed to perform the identification task incorporating temporal characteristics within time-series data. This novel approach shows the enhanced accuracy and robustness as compared to the baseline models, i.e., multilayer perceptron (MLP) and support vector machine (SVM) through the comprehensive statistical examination. Specifically, the classification accuracy of CLSTM reaches as high as 96%, regardless of the operating condition specified. More importantly, the excellent gas identification performance of CLSTM at early stages of gas exposure indicates its practical significance in future real-time applications. The promise of the proposed method has been clearly illustrated through both the internal and external validations in the systematic case investigation
KGAT: Knowledge Graph Attention Network for Recommendation
To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is
compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side
information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM)
cast it as a supervised learning problem, which assumes each interaction as an
independent instance with side information encoded. Due to the overlook of the
relations among instances or items (e.g., the director of a movie is also an
actor of another movie), these methods are insufficient to distill the
collaborative signal from the collective behaviors of users. In this work, we
investigate the utility of knowledge graph (KG), which breaks down the
independent interaction assumption by linking items with their attributes. We
argue that in such a hybrid structure of KG and user-item graph, high-order
relations --- which connect two items with one or multiple linked attributes
--- are an essential factor for successful recommendation. We propose a new
method named Knowledge Graph Attention Network (KGAT) which explicitly models
the high-order connectivities in KG in an end-to-end fashion. It recursively
propagates the embeddings from a node's neighbors (which can be users, items,
or attributes) to refine the node's embedding, and employs an attention
mechanism to discriminate the importance of the neighbors. Our KGAT is
conceptually advantageous to existing KG-based recommendation methods, which
either exploit high-order relations by extracting paths or implicitly modeling
them with regularization. Empirical results on three public benchmarks show
that KGAT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods like Neural FM and
RippleNet. Further studies verify the efficacy of embedding propagation for
high-order relation modeling and the interpretability benefits brought by the
attention mechanism.Comment: KDD 2019 research trac
Attention Trade-off between Two Types of User Contributions: Effects of Pinterest-Style Infinite Scroll Layouts on Creating Original Sharing and Appreciating Others’ Sharing
User contributions are critical to social commerce sites. Prior studies mainly examined motivational factors influencing user contributions. In the current study, we examine effects of interface layouts on user contributions, from the perspective of attention allocation. We also distinguish between the two types of user contributions: creating original sharing and appreciating others’ sharing. Since attention is a limited resource, we argue that interface layouts may lead to attention trade-off between the two types of user contributions. Leveraging an opportunity of a popular social commerce site’s transformation to Pinterest-style infinite scrolling layouts, we collected panel data. Empirical findings show that the new layouts design has opposite effects on the two types of user contribution: a positive effect on users’ appreciation of others’ sharing, but a negative effect on users’ original sharing. Some user characteristics moderate the effects. The findings yield important implications for research and websites design practice
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