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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Parallel Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
In this paper, we investigate the use of parallelization in reinforcement learning (RL), with the goal of learning optimal policies for single-agent RL problems more quickly by us...
Matthew Grounds, Daniel Kudenko
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in world wide web search
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
RIAO
2007
13 years 10 months ago
From Layout to Semantic: a Reranking Model for Mapping Web Documents to Mediated XML Representations
Many documents on the Web are formated in a weakly structured format. Because of their weak semantic and because of the heterogeneity of their formats, the information conveyed by...
Guillaume Wisniewski, Patrick Gallinari