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GECCO
2009
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Uncertainty handling CMA-ES for reinforcement learning
The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMAES) has proven to be a powerful method for reinforcement learning (RL). Recently, the CMA-ES has been augmented with an ada...
Verena Heidrich-Meisner, Christian Igel
WSDM
2010
ACM
259views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Revisiting Globally Sorted Indexes for Efficient Document Retrieval
There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Fan Zhang, Shuming Shi, Hao Yan, Ji-Rong Wen
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Ming-Feng Tsai, Yu-Ting Wang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Predicting click through rate for job listings
Click Through Rate (CTR) is an important metric for ad systems, job portals, recommendation systems. CTR impacts publisher's revenue, advertiser's bid amounts in "p...
Manish S. Gupta