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BTW
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Easy Tasks Dominate Information Retrieval Evaluation Results
: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
Thomas Mandl
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Towards an index of opportunity: understanding changes in mental workload during task execution
To contribute to systems that reason about human attention, our work empirically demonstrates how a user's mental workload changes during task execution. We conducted a study...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Piotr D. Adamczyk, Xianjun Sam Zh...
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
Autonomous transfer for reinforcement learning
Recent work in transfer learning has succeeded in making reinforcement learning algorithms more efficient by incorporating knowledge from previous tasks. However, such methods typ...
Matthew E. Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone
ICAIL
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Legal Text Summarisation: Experiments with Summary Structuring
We describe a set of experiments using machine learning techniques for the task of extractive summarisation. The research is part of a summarisation project for which we use a cor...
Ben Hachey, Claire Grover