Alex Popescul: Publications

Statistical Relational Learning

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Cluster-based Concept Invention for Statistical Relational Learning , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2004). pdf, CiteSeer

Statistical Relational Learning for Document Mining , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock , In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003). (pdf)

Structural Logistic Regression for Link Analysis , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar , Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining at KDD 2003. (pdf)

Statistical Relational Learning for Link Prediction , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar , Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data at IJCAI 2003. pdf, CiteSeer

Towards Structural Logistic Regression: Combining Relational and Statistical Learning , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, Steve Lawrence, David M. Pennock , Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining at KDD 2002. (pdf)

Recommender Systems

CROC: A New Evaluation Criterion for Recommender Systems. Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, and David M. Pennock. Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Special Issue: World Wide Web Electronic Commerce, Security and Privacy, Editors: Mary Ellen Zurko and Amy Greenwald , Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2005 (pp. 51-74).

Methods and Metrics for Cold-Start Recommendations , Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock , In Proceedings of the 25'th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002). (pdf)

Probabilistic Models for Unified Collaborative and Content-Based Recommendation in Sparse-Data Environments , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock, and Steve Lawrence , In Proceedings of the 17'th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2001), Seatle, WA, August 2001. pdf, CiteSeer

Generative Models for Cold-Start Recommendations , Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock , Workshop on Recommender Systems at SIGIR 2001. (pdf)

Other Topics

Mixtures of Conditional Maximum Entropy Models , Dmitry Pavlov, Alexandrin Popescul, David M. Pennock, Lyle H. Ungar , In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003), August 21-24, 2003, Washington, D.C. (pdf)

Clustering and Identifying Temporal Trends in Document Databases , Alexandrin Popescul, Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, Lyle H. Ungar, C. Lee Giles , In Proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 (ADL 2000), May 22-24, 2000, Washington, D.C. pdf, CiteSeer

PennAspect: A Two-Way Aspect Model Implementation , Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar , University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science, Technical Report MS-CIS-01-25. (pdf) (code download page)

Automatic Labeling of Document Clusters , Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar , unpublished, 2000.