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ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Evidence for Relevance Criteria: A Framework and Experiments in Web Retrieval
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning
In this paper, we investigate the use of hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) to speed up the acquisition of cooperative multi-agent tasks. We introduce a hierarchical multi-a...
Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, Mohammad Ghavamz...
ICMI
2003
Springer
128views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
Modeling multimodal integration patterns and performance in seniors: toward adaptive processing of individual differences
Multimodal interfaces are designed with a focus on flexibility, although very few currently are capable of adapting to major sources of user, task, or environmental variation. The...
Benfang Xiao, Rebecca Lunsford, Rachel Coulston, R...
KDD
2007
ACM
181views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
BoostCluster: boosting clustering by pairwise constraints
Data clustering is an important task in many disciplines. A large number of studies have attempted to improve clustering by using the side information that is often encoded as pai...
Yi Liu, Rong Jin, Anil K. Jain
KDD
2008
ACM
121views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining multi-faceted overviews of arbitrary topics in a text collection
A common task in many text mining applications is to generate a multi-faceted overview of a topic in a text collection. Such an overview not only directly serves as an informative...
Xu Ling, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai, Bruce R. Sc...