Keyword search is recognized as an important technique to unlocking the information found in both structured and semistructured information. With XML as the data model and XQuery ...
We consider the policy search approach to reinforcement learning. We show that if a “baseline distribution” is given (indicating roughly how often we expect a good policy to v...
J. Andrew Bagnell, Sham Kakade, Andrew Y. Ng, Jeff...
As any other problem solving task that employs search, AI Planning needs heuristics to efficiently guide the problem-space exploration. Machine learning (ML) provides several tec...
learning (EBL) component. In this paper we provide a brief review of FOIL and FOCL, then discuss how operationalizing a domain theory can adversely affect the accuracy of a learned...
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...