Selected Publications

Anietie Andy*, Satoshi Sekine, Mugizi Rwebangira, Mark Dredze, Name Variation in Community Question Answering Systems, COLING workshop on Noisy User generated Text, Osaka, Japan December 2016. Best Paper Award PDF

Anietie Andy*, Mugizi Rwebangira, Satoshi Sekine, Entity Based Approach to answering recurrent and non-recurrent questions with past answers, COLING Workshop on Open Knowlege base and question Answering, Osaka Japan December 2016, PDF

French Pope III*, Rouzbeh Shirvani*, Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Mohamed Chouikha, Ayo Taylor*, Andres Ramirez Alarcon*, Automatic Detection of Small Groups of Persons, Influential Members, Relations and Hierarchy in written conversations Using Fuzzy Logic, International Conference on Data Mining, July, 2015, Las Vegas PDF

  Kamal Al Nasr*,  Chunmei Liu, Mugizi Rwebangira, Legand Burge, Jing He, Intensity-Based Skeletonization of CryoEM Grayscale Images Using a True Segmentation-Free Algorithm, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1289-1298 (Sept. 2013) PDF

Kamal Al Nasr*,  Chunmei Liu, Legand Burge, Mugizi Rwebangira, A Graph Approach to Bridge the Gaps in Volumentric Electron Cryo-Microscopy Skeletons, International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) 2013, Charlotte, NC PDF

Mugizi Rwebangira, On Ranking Senators By Their Votes, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2012,1, Volume 124, Recent Advances in Computer Science and Information Engineering, pp. 261-268, PDF

Mugizi Rwebangira, Learning by Combining Native Features with Similarity Functions, Workshop on Empirical Hypothesis Spaces (WEHYS), NIPS 2008 PDF

Avrim Blum, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, A Random-Surfer Web-Graph Model, Third Workshop on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO 2006) PDF

Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Pakyan Choi, John Lafferty, Brian Pantano, Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Xiaojin Zhu, Person identification in webcam images: An application of semi-supervised learning, International Conference on Machine Learning 2005. Workshop on Learning with partially classified training data PDF

A. Blum, J. Lafferty, M.R. Rwebangira, R. Reddy, Semi-supervised Learning Using Randomized Mincuts, International Conference on Machine Learning 2004 PDF