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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White
FORTE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Formal Analysis of Publish-Subscribe Systems by Probabilistic Timed Automata
Abstract. The publish-subscribe architectural style has recently emerged as a promising approach to tackle the dynamism of modern distributed applications. The correctness of these...
Fei He, Luciano Baresi, Carlo Ghezzi, Paola Spolet...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent
In most previous work on personalized search algorithms, the results for all queries are personalized in the same manner. However, as we show in this paper, there is a lot of vari...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning
This paper explores what kind of user simulation model is suitable for developing a training corpus for using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to automatically learn dialog strate...
Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the Robustness of Learning from Implicit Feedback
This paper evaluates the robustness of learning from implicit feedback in web search. In particular, we create a model of user behavior by drawing upon user studies in laboratory ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims