Chris Watkins

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2009

Number

41

Co-Authors

A Rapidly Computable String Kernel Based on the Discrete Fourier Transform: Derivation and Experiments (2009)

Chris Watkins, Juho Rousu

For some applications, it is appropriate to restrict attention to subsequences of characters that occur in precisely the same order in both x and y-- but for other applications this restriction may...

Text Classification using String Kernels (2008)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, John Shawe-Taylor, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Selective Breeding Analysed as a Communication Channel (2008)

Watkins, Chris

Selective breeding is considered as a communication channel, in a novel way. The Shannon informational capacity of this channel is an upper limit on the amount of information that can be put into the...

Text Classification using String Kernels Text Classification using String Kernels (2007)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Pack Kaelbling

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Planar Languages and Learnability (2006)

Clark, Alexander, Costa Florencio, Christophe, Watkins, Chris, Serayet, Mariette

Strings can be mapped into Hilbert spaces using feature maps such as the Parikh map. Languages can then be defined as the pre-image of hyperplanes in the feature space, rather than using grammars or...

Languages as Hyperplanes: grammatical inference with string kernels (2006)

Clark, Alexander, Costa Florencio, Christophe, Watkins, Chris

Using string kernels, languages can be represented as hyperplanes in a high dimensional feature space. We present a new family of grammatical inference algorithms based on this idea. We demonstrate...

Planar languages and learnability (2006)

Er Clark, Christophe Costa Florêncio, Chris Watkins, Mariette Serayet

Abstract. Strings can be mapped into Hilbert spaces using feature maps such as the Parikh map. Languages can then be defined as the preimage of hyperplanes in the feature space, rather than using...

Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (www.nursa.org): hyperlinking the nuclear receptor signaling community (2006)

Lanz, Rainer B., Jericevic, Zeljko, Zuercher, William J., Watkins, Chris, Steffen, David L., Margolis, Ronald, ...

The nuclear receptor signaling (NRS) field has generated a substantial body of information on nuclear receptors, their ligands and coregulators, with the ultimate goal of constructing coherent models...

Disabling musculoskeletal pain and its relation to somatization: a community-based postal survey (2005)

Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...

Background: Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of...

Disabling musculoskeletal pain and its relation to somatization: a community-based postal survey (2005)

Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...

Background Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of musculoskeletal...

Disabling musculoskeletal pain and its relation to somatization: a community-based postal survey (2005)

Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...

Background Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of musculoskeletal...

Disabling musculoskeletal pain and its relation to somatization: a community-based postal survey (2005)

Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...

Background Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of musculoskeletal...

Factors affecting feasibility and acceptabillity of a practice-based learning package to support evidence based prescribing: a qualitative study (2004)

Watkins, Chris, Timm, Anja, Gooberman-Hill, Rachael, Harvey, Ian, Haines, Andy, Donovan, Jenny

Background. Inappropriate and costly GP prescribing is a major problem facing Primary Care Trusts. Educational outreach into practices, alongside other measures, such as audit and feedback, have the...

A Rapidly Computable String Kernel Based on the Discrete Fourier Transform: Derivation and Experiments (2004)

Watkins, Chris, Rousu, Juho

This paper derives a new(?) string kernel based on the discrete Fourier transform. This kernel is rapid to compute, and measures a slightly different kind of similarity from dynamic alignment or...

Factors affecting feasibility and acceptability of a practice-based educational intervention to support evidence-based prescribing: a qualitative study (2004)

Watkins, Chris, Timm, Anja, Gooberman-Hill, Rachael, Harvey, Ian, Haines, Andy, Donovan, Jenny

Background. Inappropriate and costly GP prescribing is a major problem facing Primary Care Trusts. Educational outreach into practices, alongside other measures, such as audit and feedback, have the...

Factors affecting feasibility and acceptability of a practice-based educational intervention to support evidence-based prescribing: a qualitative study (2004)

Watkins, Chris, Timm, Anja, Gooberman-Hill, Rachael, Harvey, Ian, Haines, Andy, Donovan, Jenny

Background. Inappropriate and costly GP prescribing is a major problem facing Primary Care Trusts. Educational outreach into practices, alongside other measures, such as audit and feedback, have the...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, John Shawe-taylor, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Bernhard Schölkopf

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Bernhard Scholkopf

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Bernhard Scholkopf

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, John Shawe-taylor, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins

We introduce a novel kernel for comparing two text documents. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space consisting of all subsequences of length k. A subsequence is any ordered sequence of...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, John Shawe-taylor, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Bernhard Schölkopf

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

Text classification using string kernels (2002)

Huma Lodhi, Craig Saunders, John Shawe-taylor, Nello Cristianini, Chris Watkins, Bernhard Schölkopf

We propose a novel approach for categorizing text documents based on the use of a special kernel. The kernel is an inner product in the feature space generated by all subsequences of length k. A...

A study of factors associated with cost and variation in prescribing among GPs (2000)

Carthy, Patricia, Harvey, Ian, Brawn, Richard, Watkins, Chris

Background. Inappropriate prescribing has the potential to harm both the individual and society. Previous research has identified doctor or demographic characteristics that influence prescribing...

Dynamic Alignment Kernels (1999)

Chris Watkins

There is much current interest in kernel methods for classification, regression, PCA, and other linear methods of data analysis. Kernel methods may be particularly valuable for problems in which the...

Multi-class Support Vector Machines (1998)

Jason Weston, Chris Watkins

this paper. Thanks also to M. Stitson for writing the code for one-against-one and one-against-all SV classification. We also thank Kai Vogtlaender for useful comments. In communication with V....

Support Vector Regression with ANOVA Decomposition Kernels (1997)

Mark O. Stitson, Alex Gammerman, Vladimir Vapnik, Volodya Vovk, Chris Watkins, Jason Weston, ...

Support Vector Machines using ANOVA Decomposition Kernels (SVAD) [Vapng] are a way of imposing a structure on multi-dimensional kernels which are generated as the tensor product of one-dimensional...

Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (): hyperlinking the nuclear receptor signaling community

Lanz, Rainer B., Jericevic, Zeljko, Zuercher, William J., Watkins, Chris, Steffen, David L., Margolis, Ronald, ...

The nuclear receptor signaling (NRS) field has generated a substantial body of information on nuclear receptors, their ligands and coregulators, with the ultimate goal of constructing coherent models...

Effectiveness of ear syringing in general practice: a randomised controlled trial and patients' experiences.

Memel, David, Langley, Carole, Watkins, Chris, Laue, Barbara, Birchall, Martin, Bachmann, Max

BACKGROUND: Ear syringing is a common procedure performed for a variety of symptoms in primary care. Reports of its effectiveness vary considerably and no randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have...

Effectiveness of ear syringing in general practice: a randomised controlled trial and patients' experiences.

Memel, David, Langley, Carole, Watkins, Chris, Laue, Barbara, Birchall, Martin, Bachmann, Max

BACKGROUND: Ear syringing is a common procedure performed for a variety of symptoms in primary care. Reports of its effectiveness vary considerably and no randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have...

Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas (): hyperlinking the nuclear receptor signaling community

Lanz, Rainer B., Jericevic, Zeljko, Zuercher, William J., Watkins, Chris, Steffen, David L., Margolis, Ronald, ...

The nuclear receptor signaling (NRS) field has generated a substantial body of information on nuclear receptors, their ligands and coregulators, with the ultimate goal of constructing coherent models...

The conductance underlying the parallel fibre slow EPSP in rat cerebellar Purkinje neurones studied with photolytic release of L-glutamate

Canepari, Marco, Papageorgiou, George, Corrie, John E T, Watkins, Chris, Ogden, David

Tetanic stimulation of parallel fibres (PFs) produces a slow EPSP (sEPSP) or slow EPSC (sEPSC) in Purkinje neurones (PNs), mediated by type 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR1). The...

The spread of awareness and its impact on epidemic outbreaks

Funk, Sebastian, Gilad, Erez, Watkins, Chris, Jansen, Vincent A. A.

When a disease breaks out in a human population, changes in behavior in response to the outbreak can alter the progression of the infectious agent. In particular, people aware of a disease in their...