Jason Weston
Research Scientist at Google, NY, USA.
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Call for papers -- Special Issue on Learning Semantics in Machine Learning
Current Research & Interests
- Machine Learning
- Fast learning.
- Label Embedding Trees for Large Multi-Class Tasks published in NIPS 2010.
- Deep learning and using unlabeled data.
- Audio
- Large Scale Music Recommendation.
- Images
- Large Scale Image Annotation.
- Text
- NLP (almost) from scratch by learning feature representations for text.
- Using knowledge bases in text embedding (feature learning) models.
- Learning language in a situated environment.
- Semantic search.
- Bioinformatics
- Mass spectrometry peptide identification.
- Q-Ranker algorithm published in Journal of Proteome Research.
- Percolator algorithm published in Nature Methods.
- Protein classification and ranking.
- SVM-Fold - Protein Fold and Superfamily prediction by SVM.
- RankProp stand-alone protein ranking webserver. Rankprop also features on the UCSC Human Genome Browser.
- Software
- Torch 5 - Free, Fast Scripting Language-based Machine Learning Library (Lua+C).
- SENNA - Semantic Extraction using a Neural Net Architecture
- Large Scale Transductive SVMs .
- la SVM   online SVM solver
- Spider Machine Learning Toolbox (Matlab).