Machine Learning Challenges: Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty, Visual Object Classification, and Recognizing Textual Entailment, First Pascal Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005, Southampton, UK, April 11-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 3944

Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Challenge.- Classification with Bayesian Neural Networks.- A Pragmatic Bayesian Approach to Predictive Uncertainty.- Many Are Better Than One: Improving Probabilistic Estimates from Decision Trees.- Estimating Predictive Variances with Kernel Ridge Regression.- Competitive Associative Nets and Cross-Validation for Estimating Predictive Uncertainty on Regression Problems.- Lessons Learned in the Challenge: Making Predictions and Scoring Them.- The 2005 PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge.- The PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge.- Using Bleu-like Algorithms for the Automatic Recognition of Entailment.- What Syntax Can Contribute in the Entailment Task.- Combining Lexical Resources with Tree Edit Distance for Recognizing Textual Entailment.- Textual Entailment Recognition Based on Dependency Analysis and WordNet.- Learning Textual Entailment on a Distance Feature Space.- An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language.- A Lexical Alignment Model for Probabilistic Textual Entailment.- Textual Entailment Recognition Using Inversion Transduction Grammars.- Evaluating Semantic Evaluations: How RTE Measures Up.- Partial Predicate Argument Structure Matching for Entailment Determination.- VENSES – A Linguistically-Based System for Semantic Evaluation.- Textual Entailment Recognition Using a Linguistically–Motivated Decision Tree Classifier.- Recognizing Textual Entailment Via Atomic Propositions.- Recognising Textual Entailment with Robust Logical Inference.- Applying COGEX to Recognize Textual Entailment.- Recognizing Textual Entailment: Is Word Similarity Enough?.