We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
In most web sites, web-based applications (such as web portals, emarketplaces, search engines), and in the file systems of personal computers, a wide variety of schemas (such as t...
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini,...
The vision of Semantic Web services promises a network of interoperable Web services over different sources. A major challenge to the realization of this vision is the lack of aut...
Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng
One may need to build a statistical parser for a new language, using only a very small labeled treebank together with raw text. We argue that bootstrapping a parser is most promis...
Most current image retrieval systems and commercial search engines use mainly text annotations to index and retrieve WWW images. This research explores the use of machine learning...