There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
A new spectral approach to value function approximation has recently been proposed to automatically construct basis functions from samples. Global basis functions called proto-val...
The goal of semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods is to reduce the amount of labeled training data required by learning from both labeled and unlabeled instances. Macskassy and Pr...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
This paper presents a graph-based approach for spoken term detection. Each first-pass retrieved utterance is a node on a graph and the edge between two nodes is weighted by the s...