Improving text categorization methods for event tracking

Y Yang, T Ault, T Pierce, CW Lattimer - Proceedings of the 23rd annual …, 2000 - dl.acm.org
Automated tracking of events from chronologically ordered document streams is a new
challenge for statistical text classification. Existing learning techniques must be adapted or …

Assessing Medicare's hospital pay-for-performance programs and whether they are achieving their goals

CN Kahn III, T Ault, L Potetz, T Walke, JH Chambers… - Health …, 2015 - healthaffairs.org
Three separate pay-for-performance programs affect the amount of Medicare payment for
inpatient services to about 3,400 US hospitals. These payments are based on hospital …

[BOOK][B] Cost Containment in Medicare: A Review of what Works and what Doesn't

R Berenson, M Hash, T Ault, B Fuchs, S Maxwell… - 2008 - researchgate.net
AARP’s Public Policy Institute informs and stimulates public debate on the issues we face
as we age. Through research, analysis and dialogue with the nation’s leading experts, PPI …

[PDF][PDF] kNN at TREC-9.

T Ault, Y Yang - TREC, 2000 - trec.nist.gov
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Snapshot of hospital quality reporting and pay-for-performance under Medicare

CN Kahn III, T Ault, H Isenstein, L Potetz… - Health …, 2006 - healthaffairs.org
This paper examines the impact that Medicare pay-for-performance (P4P) might have upon
hospital payment. It uses the initial two quarters of a national quality database to model …

[PDF][PDF] Combining multiple learning strategies for effective cross validation

Y Yang, T Ault, T Pierce - ICML, 2000 - Citeseer
Parameter tuning through cross-validation becomes very di cult when the validation set
contains no or only a few examples of the classes in the evaluation set. We address this open …

Multi-strategy learning for topic detection and tracking: a joint report of cmu approaches to multilingual tdt

…, R Brown, J Lafferty, T Pierce, T Ault - Topic detection and …, 2002 - Springer
This chapter reports on CMU’s work in all the five TDT-1999 tasks, including segmentation (story
boundary identification), topic tracking, topic detection, first story detection, and story-…

[PDF][PDF] kNN, Rocchio and Metrics for Information Filtering at TREC-10.

T Ault, Y Yang - TREC, 2001 - trec.nist.gov
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Frameless Patient Registration Using Ultrasonic Imaging: A Preliminary Study

T Ault, MW Siegel - Journal of image guided surgery, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Locating the patient accurately in real time is necessary for many medical robotics applications.
Current solutions are expensive or inconvenient. We show progress toward solving …

[PDF][PDF] Frameless patient registration using ultrasonic imaging

T Ault, MW Siegel - Medical robotics and computer assisted surgery, 1994 - cs.cmu.edu
Locating the patient accurately in real-time is necessary for many problems in medical
robotics. Current solutions are expensive or inconvenient. We show progress toward solving …