Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
We organized a challenge for IJCNN 2007 to assess the added value of prior domain knowledge in machine learning. Most commercial data mining programs accept data pre-formatted in ...
Isabelle Guyon, Amir Saffari, Gideon Dror, Gavin C...
The lack of lightweight communication channels and other technical and sociological difficulties make it hard for new members of a non-collocated software development team to lea...
Davor Cubranic, Gail C. Murphy, Janice Singer, Kel...
It is important yet hard to identify navigational queries in Web search due to a lack of sufficient information in Web queries, which are typically very short. In this paper we st...
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...