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IDT
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Modelling decision making with probabilistic causation
Humans know how to reason based on cause and effect, but cause and effect is not enough to draw conclusions due to the problem of imperfect information and uncertainty. To resol...
Luís Moniz Pereira, Carroline Kencana Ramli
FSTTCS
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Game Semantics for Higher-Order Concurrency
Abstract. We describe a denotational (game) semantics for a call-byvalue functional language with multiple threads of control, which may communicate values of general type on local...
James Laird
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
ChengXiang Zhai
ACL
2010
14 years 9 months ago
Cross-Lingual Latent Topic Extraction
Probabilistic latent topic models have recently enjoyed much success in extracting and analyzing latent topics in text in an unsupervised way. One common deficiency of existing to...
Duo Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai