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PODS
2010
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 25 days ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...
Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Active Collaborative Filtering
Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of onl...
Craig Boutilier, Richard S. Zemel, Benjamin M. Mar...
STOC
1994
ACM
128views Algorithms» more  STOC 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Weakly learning DNF and characterizing statistical query learning using Fourier analysis
We present new results on the well-studied problem of learning DNF expressions. We prove that an algorithm due to Kushilevitz and Mansour [13] can be used to weakly learn DNF form...
Avrim Blum, Merrick L. Furst, Jeffrey C. Jackson, ...
WIDM
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answering imprecise database queries: a novel approach
A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati