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NAACL
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
Ellen M. Voorhees
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Inverse Optimal Control with Linearly-Solvable MDPs
We present new algorithms for inverse optimal control (or inverse reinforcement learning, IRL) within the framework of linearlysolvable MDPs (LMDPs). Unlike most prior IRL algorit...
Dvijotham Krishnamurthy, Emanuel Todorov
ALMOB
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Local sequence alignments statistics: deviations from Gumbel statistics in the rare-event tail
Background: The optimal score for ungapped local alignments of infinitely long random sequences is known to follow a Gumbel extreme value distribution. Less is known about the imp...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Bernd Burghardt, Alexander K. ...
BMCBI
2010
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Scaffold filling, contig fusion and comparative gene order inference
Background: There has been a trend in increasing the phylogenetic scope of genome sequencing without finishing the sequence of the genome. Increasing numbers of genomes are being ...
Adriana Muñoz, Chunfang Zheng, Qian Zhu, Vi...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu