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Prediction in financial domains is notoriously difficult for a number ofreasons. First, theories tend to be weak or non-existent, which makesproblem formulation open ended by forcing us to consider a large numberof independent variables and thereby increasing the dimensionality ofthe search...

Often only limited information can be elicited from experts about a distribution, such as quantiles or other summary statistics. Skewed non-negative distributions often arise in practice, and present a particular challenge for elicitation due to their asymmetry. This paper provides a range of...

In this paper we presented a lot of experiments that examine how the particular parts of the documents do contribute to the performance of a classifier. We evaluated text classifiers on two very different text corpora. We conclude that some parts of the text are more important from the point of...