This paper proposes a new classification method for spatial data by adjusting prior class probabilities according to local spatial patterns. First, the proposed method uses a classical statistical classifier to model training data. Second, the prior class probabilities are estimated according to the local spatial pattern and the classifier for each unseen object is adapted using the estimated prior probability. Finally, each unseen object is classified using its adapted classifier. Because the new method can be coupled with both generative and discriminant statistical classifiers, it performs generally more accurately than other methods for a variety of different spatial datasets. Experimental results show that this method has a lower prediction error than statistical classifiers that take no spatial information into account. Moreover, in the experiments, the new method also outperforms spatial auto-logistic regression and Markov random field-based methods when an appropriate estimate of local prior class distribution is used.

The objective of event extraction is to recognize event triggers and event categories within unstructured text and produce structured event arguments. However, there is a common phenomenon of triggers and arguments of different event types in a sentence that may be the same word elements, which poses new challenges to this task. In this article, a joint learning framework for overlapping event extraction (ROPEE) is proposed. In this framework, a role pre-judgment module is devised prior to argument extraction. It conducts role pre-judgment by leveraging the correlation between event types and roles, as well as trigger embeddings. Experiments on the FewFC show that the proposed model outperforms other baseline models in terms of Trigger Classification, Argument Identification, and Argument Classification by 0.4%, 0.9%, and 0.6%. In scenarios of trigger overlap and argument overlap, the proposed model outperforms the baseline models in terms of Argument Identification and Argument Classification by 0.9%, 1.2%, 0.7%, and 0.6%, respectively, indicating the effectiveness of ROPEE in solving overlapping events.

Most recommender systems rely on user and item attributes or their interaction records to find similar neighbors for collaborative filtering. Existing methods focus on developing collaborative signals from only one type of neighbors and ignore the unique contributions of different types of neighbor views. This paper proposes a multiscale neighbor-aware attention network for collaborative filtering (MSNAN). First, attribute-view neighbor embedding is modeled to extract the features of different types of neighbors with co-occurrence attributes, and interaction-view neighbor embedding is leveraged to describe the fine-grained neighborhood behaviors of ratings. Then, a matched attention network is used to identify different contributions of multiscale neighbors and capture multiple types of collaborative signals for overcoming sparse recommendations. Finally, we make the rating prediction by a joint learning of multi-task loss and verify the positive effect of the proposed MSNAN on three datasets. Compared with traditional methods, the experimental results of the proposed MSNAN not only improve the accuracy in MAE and RMSE indexes, but also solve the problem of poor performance for recommendation in sparse data scenarios.