Focused crawlers are programs that wander in the Web, using its graph structure, and gather pages that belong to a specific topic. The most critical task in Focused Crawling is the...
Ioannis Partalas, Georgios Paliouras, Ioannis P. V...
The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource d...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
We introduce a new class of Reinforcement Learning algorithms designed to operate in perceptual spaces containing images. They work by classifying the percepts using a computer vi...
Subject-specific search facilities on health sites are usually built using manual inclusion and exclusion rules. These can be expensive to maintain and often provide incomplete c...
Thanh Tin Tang, David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kath...
Factored Reinforcement Learning (frl) is a new technique to solve Factored Markov Decision Problems (fmdps) when the structure of the problem is not known in advance. Like Anticipa...
Olivier Sigaud, Martin V. Butz, Olga Kozlova, Chri...