Weadvance a knowledge-based learning method that augments conventional generalization to permit concept acquisition in failure domains. These are domains in whichlearning must pro...
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than wo...
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisb...
We present a general, consistency-based framework for belief change. Informally, in revising K by , we begin with and incorporate as much of K as consistently possible. Formally, ...
In many important text classification problems, acquiring class labels for training documents is costly, while gathering large quantities of unlabeled data is cheap. This paper sh...
Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, Sebastian Thrun, Tom...
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) allow one to model complex dynamic decision or control problems that include both action outcome uncertainty and imperfect ...