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SIGIR
2011
ACM
13 years 25 days ago
A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai, Wan Chen
IJON
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Information maximization in face processing
This perspective paper explores principles of unsupervised learning and how they relate to face recognition. Dependency coding and information maximization appear to be central pr...
Marian Stewart Bartlett
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cultivating desired behaviour: policy teaching via environment-dynamics tweaks
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
ICDE
2011
IEEE
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13 years 1 months ago
Deriving probabilistic databases with inference ensembles
— Many real-world applications deal with uncertain or missing data, prompting a surge of activity in the area of probabilistic databases. A shortcoming of prior work is the assum...
Julia Stoyanovich, Susan B. Davidson, Tova Milo, V...
DCOSS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Node Discovery in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
Energy is one of the most crucial aspects in real deployments of mobile sensor networks. As a result of scarce resources, the duration of most real deployments can be limited to ju...
Vladimir Dyo, Cecilia Mascolo