In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Models of agent-environment interaction that use predictive state representations (PSRs) have mainly focused on the case of discrete observations and actions. The theory of discre...
Learning semantics from annotated images to enhance content-based retrieval is an important research direction. In this paper, annotation data are assumed available for only a sub...
Information filtering has made considerable progress in recent years.The predominant approaches are content-based methods and collaborative methods. Researchers have largely conc...
It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a doubleedged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building bloc...