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ICML
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Reinforcement learning with limited reinforcement: using Bayes risk for active learning in POMDPs
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) have succeeded in planning domains that require balancing actions that increase an agent's knowledge and actions that ...
Finale Doshi, Joelle Pineau, Nicholas Roy
ICDE
2008
IEEE
130views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
16 years 8 months ago
Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results
We study the problem of efficiently computing diverse query results in online shopping applications, where users specify queries through a form interface that allows a mix of stru...
Erik Vee, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jayavel Shanmugasund...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Creation and Maintenance of Query Expansion Rules
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
Stefania Castellani, Aaron N. Kaplan, Fréd&...
ASIAN
2005
Springer
96views Algorithms» more  ASIAN 2005»
16 years 5 days ago
Query Incentive Networks
The concurrent growth of on-line communities exhibiting large-scale social structure, and of large decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, has stimulated new interest in...
Prabhakar Raghavan