The decomposition of large systems into parts is a general principle of software design. Even more, in the scope of distributed systems a partition of the whole system into distri...
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
While test collection construction is a time-consuming and expensive process, the true cost is amortized by reusing the collection over hundreds or thousands of experiments. Some ...
Ben Carterette, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifov...
While a user’s preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learni...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Bo Long, Alexander J. Smola, Hon...
In this paper we present a new approach for using semantic wikis for collaborative patent search and annotation. We describe an extension that allows integrating interactive visua...