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• A Stochastic Model of Language Evolution That Incorporates Homoplasy and Borrowing

  BNET - 2005-01-06

  The inference of evolutionary history, whether in biology or in linguistics, is aided by a carefully considered model of the evolutionary process and a reconstruction method which is expected to produce a reasonably accurate estimation of the true evolutionary history when the real data match the model assumptions and are...

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• Using Random Forest to Learn Imbalanced Data

  BNET - 2004-08-02

  In this paper they propose two ways to deal with the imbalanced data classification problem using random forest. One is based on cost sensitive learning, and the other is based on a sampling technique. Performance metrics such as precision and recall, false positive rate and false negative rate, F-measure and...

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• Oregon State Univ. engineering programs merge, look to future

  - 2003-03-24

  With the recent merger of its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and its Department of Computer Science, Oregon State University hopes to become one of the top 25 engineering schools in the nation. The two departments are now called the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is...

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