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COLING
1992
13 years 9 months ago
Planning To Fail, Not Failing To Plan: Risk-Taking And Recovery In Task-Oriented Dialogue
duplicate the route. The HCRC Dialogue Database [3] We hypothesise that agents who engage in task- contains 128 such dialogues; in this work we examined oriented dialogue usually t...
Jean Carletta
JCDL
2009
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Using timed-release cryptography to mitigate the preservation risk of embargo periods
Due to temporary access restrictions, embargoed data cannot be refreshed to unlimited parties during the embargo time interval. A solution to mitigate the risk of data loss has be...
Rabia Haq, Michael L. Nelson
PODS
2005
ACM
85views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Relative risk and odds ratio: a data mining perspective
We are often interested to test whether a given cause has a given effect. If we cannot specify the nature of the factors involved, such tests are called model-free studies. There ...
Haiquan Li, Jinyan Li, Limsoon Wong, Mengling Feng...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
We introduce a new theoretical derivation, evaluation methods, and extensive empirical analysis for an automatic query expansion framework in which model estimation is cast as a r...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Query-level stability and generalization in learning to rank
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...