As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
This paper presents the systems and results for the Event Detection task of the TRECVid 2008 evaluation campaign. The kind of events addressed are single-actor, without requiring ...
Andreas Stergiou, Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, Lazar...
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
The ability to interpret demonstrations from the perspective of the teacher plays a critical role in human learning. Robotic systems that aim to learn effectively from human teach...
Matt Berlin, Jesse Gray, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cy...
As robots become a mass consumer product, they will need to learn new skills by interacting with typical human users. Past approaches have adapted reinforcement learning (RL) to a...