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WEBDB
2007
Springer
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14 years 25 days ago
Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Minji Wu, Amélie Marian
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Ranked Queries over Sources with Boolean Query Interfaces without Ranking Support
Many online or local data sources provide powerful querying mechanisms but limited ranking capabilities. For instance, PubMed allows users to submit highly expressive Boolean keywo...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Vagelis Hristidis, Yuheng...
VLDB
2004
ACM
129views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 1 days ago
Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, ...
NAACL
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Definition questions represent a largely unexplored area of question answering--they are different from factoid questions in that the goal is to return as many relevant "nugg...
Wesley Hildebrandt, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic preferences in multi-criteria reinforcement learning
The current framework of reinforcement learning is based on maximizing the expected returns based on scalar rewards. But in many real world situations, tradeoffs must be made amon...
Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli