James R. Foulds

Weakly Supervised Models of Aspect-Sentiment for Online Course Discussion Forums

2015

Arti Ramesh, Shachi H. Kumar, James Foulds, Lise Getoor. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). …

Variational Bayes in Private Settings (VIPS) (Extended Abstract)

2020

Many applications of Bayesian data analysis involve sensitive information such as personal documents or medical records, motivating methods which ensure that privacy is protected. We introduce a general privacy-preserving framework for Variational Bayes (VB), a …

HyPER

2015

As the amount of recorded digital information increases, there is a growing need for flexible recommender systems which can incorporate richly structured data sources to improve recommendations. In this paper, we show how a recently …