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ICCBR
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Similarity-Based Approach to Attribute Selection in User-Adaptive Sales Dialogs
For dynamic sales dialogs in electronic commerce scenarios, approaches based on an information gain measure used for attribute selection have been suggested. These measures conside...
Andreas Kohlmaier, Sascha Schmitt, Ralph Bergmann
FQAS
2006
Springer
90views Database» more  FQAS 2006»
14 years 11 days ago
XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...
Stephen E. Robertson, Wei Lu, Andrew MacFarlane
CC
2006
Springer
125views System Software» more  CC 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
A tight lower bound for restricted pir protocols
We show that any 1-round 2-server Private Information Retrieval Protocol where the answers are 1-bit long must ask questions that are at least n - 2 bits long, which is nearly equa...
Richard Beigel, Lance Fortnow, William I. Gasarch
LICS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
From Automatic Structures to Borel Structures
We study the classes of B¨uchi and Rabin automatic structures. For B¨uchi (Rabin) automatic structures their domains consist of infinite strings (trees), and the basic relation...
Greg Hjorth, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Antonio Montalb...
CORR
1998
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 1998»
13 years 8 months ago
Bayesian Stratified Sampling to Assess Corpus Utility
This paper describes a method for asking statistical questions about a large text corpus. We exemplify the method by addressing the question, "What percentage of Federal Regi...
Judith Hochberg, Clint Scovel, Timothy Thomas, Sam...