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KDD
2004
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Machine learning for online query relaxation
In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Ion Muslea
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months 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
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Automatically identifying localizable queries
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho
LWA
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Learning User-Adaptive State Models in a Conversational Recommender System
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci