People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...
In this paper we present TDLEAF( ), a variation on the TD( ) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our che...
We present a probabilistic model, based on Dynamic Decision Networks, to assess user affect from possible causes of emotional arousal. The model relies on the OCC cognitive theory...
We present a document expansion approach that uses Conditional Random Field (CRF) segmentation to automatically extract salient phrases from ad titles. We then supplement the ad d...
We propose a method to improve the results of image search engines on the Internet to satisfy users who desire to see relevant images in the first few pages. The method re-ranks ...
Hilal Zitouni, Sare Gul Sevil, Derya Ozkan, Pinar ...