While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has attrac...
Stephen Dignum, Udo Kruschwitz, Maria Fasli, Yunhy...
Reasoning about the physical world is a central human cognitive activity. One aspect of such reasoning is the inference of function from the structure of the artifacts one encount...
We present PLIANT, a learning system that supports adaptive assistance in an open calendaring system. PLIANT learns user preferences from the feedback that naturally occurs during...
Melinda T. Gervasio, Michael D. Moffitt, Martha E....
We describe a reinforcement learning system that transfers skills from a previously learned source task to a related target task. The system uses inductive logic programming to ana...
Lisa Torrey, Jude W. Shavlik, Trevor Walker, Richa...
Data sparsity is a major problem for collaborative filtering (CF) techniques in recommender systems, especially for new users and items. We observe that, while our target data are...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Y...