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UAI
2001
13 years 8 months ago
UCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities
We propose a directed graphical representation of utility functions, called UCP-networks, that combines aspects of two existing preference models: generalized additive models and ...
Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, Ronen I. Brafman
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
KCAP
2003
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Capturing interest through inference and visualization: ontological user profiling in recommender systems
Tools for filtering the World Wide Web exist, but they are hampered by the difficulty of capturing user preferences in such a diverse and dynamic environment. Recommender systems ...
Stuart E. Middleton, Nigel R. Shadbolt, David De R...
NIPS
1997
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to Order Things
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
A Methodology for Evaluating Aggregated Search Results
Aggregated search is the task of incorporating results from different specialized search services, or verticals, into Web search results. While most prior work focuses on deciding...
Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, Ben C...