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KDD
2007
ACM
154views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Canonicalization of database records using adaptive similarity measures
It is becoming increasingly common to construct databases from information automatically culled from many heterogeneous sources. For example, a research publication database can b...
Aron Culotta, Michael L. Wick, Robert Hall, Matthe...
UAI
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Learning Inclusion-Optimal Chordal Graphs
Chordal graphs can be used to encode dependency models that are representable by both directed acyclic and undirected graphs. This paper discusses a very simple and efficient algo...
Vincent Auvray, Louis Wehenkel
ACL
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
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...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai, Wan Chen
KDD
2010
ACM
252views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 1 months ago
Fast query execution for retrieval models based on path-constrained random walks
Many recommendation and retrieval tasks can be represented as proximity queries on a labeled directed graph, with typed nodes representing documents, terms, and metadata, and labe...
Ni Lao, William W. Cohen