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TAINN
2005
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
An Evolutionary Local Search Algorithm for the Satisfiability Problem
Satisfiability problem is an NP-complete problem that finds itself or its variants in many combinatorial problems. There exist many complete algorithms that give successful results...
Levent Aksoy, Ece Olcay Gunes
AIMSA
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Using Verbs to Characterize Noun-Noun Relations
Abstract. We present a novel, simple, unsupervised method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between nouns in noun-noun compounds. The main idea is to discover pre...
Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 10 days ago
A structured approach to query recommendation with social annotation data
Query recommendation has been recognized as an important mean to help users search and also improve the usability of search engines. Existing approaches mainly focus on helping us...
Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng, Gu Xu, Huawei Shen
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Transfer via inter-task mappings in policy search reinforcement learning
The ambitious goal of transfer learning is to accelerate learning on a target task after training on a different, but related, source task. While many past transfer methods have f...
Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
ECIR
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu