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IJKL
2008
106views more  IJKL 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Activity- and taxonomy-based knowledge representation framework
: Elaborations of Competence-based Knowledge Space Theory (CbKST) incorporate skills that refer to the conceptual information of the domain as well as to the activities learners ar...
Birgit Marte, Christina M. Steiner, Jürgen He...
WSDM
2010
ACM
160views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
MM
2009
ACM
187views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
Convex experimental design using manifold structure for image retrieval
Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active research areas in computer science. Relevance feedback is often used in CBIR systems to bridge the semantic ...
Lijun Zhang, Chun Chen, Wei Chen, Jiajun Bu, Deng ...
AAAI
1994
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Select Useful Landmarks
To navigate effectively, an autonomous agent must be able to quickly and accurately determine its current location. Given an initial estimate of its position (perhaps based on dea...
Russell Greiner, Ramana Isukapalli
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...