Ensemble methods are learning algorithms that construct a set of classi ers and then classify new data points by taking a (weighted) vote of their predictions. The original ensembl...
Reusing past experiences by reasoning from past cases poses particular problems when the input to case retrieval comes from large amounts of online data. Volve has developed a syst...
Extracting a map from a stream of experience is a key problem in robotics and artificial intelligence in general. We propose a technique, called subjective mapping, that seeks to ...
We consider recommender systems that filter information and only show the most preferred items. Good recommendations can be provided only when an accurate model of the user's...
In this paper we study the utility of discourse structure for spoken dialogue performance modeling. We experiment with various ways of exploiting the discourse structure: in isola...