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ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Explicit Search Result Diversification through Sub-queries
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
CIKM
2007
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Effective top-k computation in retrieving structured documents with term-proximity support
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Mingjing Li, Ji-Rong Wen
JAIR
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Creating Relational Data from Unstructured and Ungrammatical Data Sources
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...
Matthew Michelson, Craig A. Knoblock
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Semantical Considerations on Dialectical and Practical Commitments
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
Munindar P. Singh
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Minimal Contraction of Preference Relations
Changing preferences is very common in real life. The expressive power of the operations of preference change introduced so far in the literature is limited to adding new informat...
Denis Mindolin, Jan Chomicki