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EMNLP
2007
15 years 2 months ago
Detecting Compositionality of Verb-Object Combinations using Selectional Preferences
In this paper we explore the use of selectional preferences for detecting noncompositional verb-object combinations. To characterise the arguments in a given grammatical relations...
Diana McCarthy, Sriram Venkatapathy, Aravind K. Jo...
VLDB
1994
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 4 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang
GECCO
2009
Springer
145views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 5 months ago
Investigating and exploiting the bias of the weighted hypervolume to articulate user preferences
Optimizing the hypervolume indicator within evolutionary multiobjective optimizers has become popular in the last years. Recently, the indicator has been generalized to the weight...
Anne Auger, Johannes Bader, Dimo Brockhoff, Eckart...
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KDD
2004
ACM
148views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
16 years 1 months ago
Spying Out Accurate User Preferences for Search Engine Adaptation
Abstract. Most existing search engines employ static ranking algorithms that do not adapt to the specific needs of users. Recently, some researchers have studied the use of clickth...
Lin Deng, Wilfred Ng, Xiaoyong Chai, Dik Lun Lee