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WSDM
2010
ACM
322views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Inferring Search Behaviors Using Partially Observable Markov (POM) Model
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...
Kuansan Wang, Nikolas Gloy, Xiaolong Li
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
CORR
2007
Springer
107views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Risk Minimization and Optimal Derivative Design in a Principal Agent Game
We consider the problem of Adverse Selection and optimal derivative design within a Principal-Agent framework. The principal’s income is exposed to non-hedgeable risk factors ar...
U. Horst, S. Moreno
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Extraction Assessment through Better Language Models
A variety of information extraction techniques rely on the fact that instances of the same relation are "distributionally similar," in that they tend to appear in simila...
Arun Ahuja, Doug Downey
ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are a powerful probabilistic tool for modeling sequential data, and have been applied with success to many text-related tasks, such as part-of-speech t...
Andrew McCallum, Dayne Freitag, Fernando C. N. Per...