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TSC
2008
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Selective Querying for Adapting Web Service Compositions Using the Value of Changed Information
Web service composition (WSC) techniques assume that the parameters used to model the environment remain static and accurate throughout the composition's execution. However, W...
John Harney, Prashant Doshi
JAIR
2000
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An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Marilyn A. Walker
ICPR
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Selection and Estimation of Finite Mixture Models
We propose a new method for fitting mixture models that performs component selection and does not require external initialization. The novelty of our approach includes: a minimum ...
Anil K. Jain, Mário A. T. Figueiredo
ICML
2006
IEEE
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Clustering documents with an exponential-family approximation of the Dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The Dirichlet compound multinomial (DCM) distribution, also called the multivariate Polya distribution, is a model for text documents that takes into account burstiness: the fact ...
Charles Elkan
CP
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Approximate Solution Sampling (and Counting) on AND/OR Spaces
In this paper, we describe a new algorithm for sampling solutions from a uniform distribution over the solutions of a constraint network. Our new algorithm improves upon the Sampli...
Vibhav Gogate, Rina Dechter