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AIPS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Effective Information Value Calculation for Interruption Management in Multi-Agent Scheduling
This paper addresses the problem of deciding effectively whether to interrupt a teammate who may have information that is valuable for solving a collaborative scheduling problem. ...
David Sarne, Barbara J. Grosz, Peter Owotoki
ACL
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong
CORR
1999
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
ZBroker: A Query Routing Broker for Z39.50 Databases
A query routing broker is a software agent that determines from a large set of accessing information sources the ones most relevant to a user's information need. As the numbe...
Yong Lin, Jian Xu, Ee-Peng Lim, Wee Keong Ng
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Providing ranked relevant results for web database queries
Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Implicit queries (IQ) for contextualized search
The Implicit Query (IQ) prototype is a system which automatically generates context-sensitive searches based on a user’s current computing activities. In the demo, we show IQ ru...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Raman Sarin, Eric...