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ACL
1997
13 years 8 months ago
A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis
We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how several problem...
Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Preference Elicitation and Generalized Additive Utility
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
KDD
2008
ACM
193views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
A family of dissimilarity measures between nodes generalizing both the shortest-path and the commute-time distances
This work introduces a new family of link-based dissimilarity measures between nodes of a weighted directed graph. This measure, called the randomized shortest-path (RSP) dissimil...
Luh Yen, Marco Saerens, Amin Mantrach, Masashi Shi...
AAAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Theory of Expressiveness in Mechanisms
A key trend in (electronic) commerce is a demand for higher levels of expressiveness in the mechanisms that mediate interactions. We develop a theory that ties the expressiveness ...
Michael Benisch, Norman M. Sadeh, Tuomas Sandholm
CORR
2008
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Theory of Rumour Spreading in Complex Social Networks
We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...