After two successful years at SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, the third workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2009) was held conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 20...
Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong...
Usenet may be regarded as the world’s largest conversational application, with over 17,000 newsgroups and 3 million users. Despite its ubiquity and popularity, however, we know ...
Steve Whittaker, Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill...
For a Markov Decision Process with finite state (size S) and action spaces (size A per state), we propose a new algorithm--Delayed Q-Learning. We prove it is PAC, achieving near o...
Alexander L. Strehl, Lihong Li, Eric Wiewiora, Joh...
We present an adaptive work-stealing thread scheduler, ASTEAL, for fork-join multithreaded jobs, like those written using the Cilk multithreaded language or the Hood work-stealing...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Yuxiong He, W...
We all spend time every day looking for information in our email, yet we know little about this refinding process. Some users expend considerable preparatory effort creating compl...
Steve Whittaker, Tara Matthews, Julian A. Cerruti,...