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CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A latent variable model for query expansion using the hidden markov model
We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Qiang Huang, Dawei Song
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HRI
2011
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Managing social constraints on recharge behaviour for robot companions using memory
In this paper, we present an approach to monitor human activities such as entry, exit and break times of people in a workplace environment. The companion robot then learns the use...
Amol A. Deshmukh, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ru...
160
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
KDD
2009
ACM
219views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
Structured correspondence topic models for mining captioned figures in biological literature
A major source of information (often the most crucial and informative part) in scholarly articles from scientific journals, proceedings and books are the figures that directly pro...
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, Robert ...
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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
iRobot: an intelligent crawler for web forums
We study in this paper the Web forum crawling problem, which is a very fundamental step in many Web applications, such as search engine and Web data mining. As a typical user-crea...
Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, Lei ...