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SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
UAI
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Utility Elicitation as a Classification Problem
The majority of real-world probabilistic systems are used by more than one user, thus a utility model must be elicited separately for each newuser. Utility elicitation is long and...
Urszula Chajewska, Lise Getoor, Joseph Norman, Yuv...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting a sensed environment to improve human-agent communication
This paper describes an implemented robotic agent architecture in which the environment, as sensed by the agent, is used to guide the recognition of spoken and gestural directives...
Shana Watters, Tim Miller, Praveen Balachandran, W...
AUSAI
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Elements of a Learning Interface for Genre Qualified Search
Even prior to content, the genre of a web document leads to a first coarse binary classification of the recall space in relevant and non-relevant documents. Thinking of a genre se...
Andrea Stubbe, Christoph Ringlstetter, Randy Goebe...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
On the design of distributed protocols from differential equations
We propose a framework to translate certain subclasses of differential equation systems into distributed protocols that are practical. The synthesized protocols are state machine...
Indranil Gupta