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ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Reputation in the joint venture game
In many settings, agents need to identify competent partners to assist them in accomplishing tasks. Direct experience may not provide sufficient data to learn the competence of ot...
Philip Hendrix, Barbara J. Grosz
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
A Text-to-Picture Synthesis System for Augmenting Communication
We present a novel Text-to-Picture system that synthesizes a picture from general, unrestricted natural language text. The process is analogous to Text-to-Speech synthesis, but wi...
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Mohamed Eldawy, C...
FLAIRS
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
Timothy W. Finin, Joel Sachs, Cynthia Sims Parr
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Combining concept hierarchies and statistical topic models
Statistical topic models provide a general data-driven framework for automated discovery of high-level knowledge from large collections of text documents. While topic models can p...
Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyv...