Previous studies evaluate simulated dialog corpora using evaluation measures which can be automatically extracted from the dialog systems' logs. However, the validity of thes...
Clickthrough rate and cost-per-click are known to be among the factors that impact the rank of an ad shown on a search result page. Hence, search engines can benefit from estimat...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
A common approach to designing Recommender Systems (RS) consists of asking users to explicitly rate items in order to collect feedback about their preferences. However, users have...
Xavier Amatriain, Josep M. Pujol, Nava Tintarev, N...
Rating-based collaborative filtering is the process of predicting how a user would rate a given item from other user ratings. We propose three related slope one schemes with pred...
Modeling of individual users is a promising way of improving the performance of spoken dialogue systems deployed for the general public and utilized repeatedly. We define "im...