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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach for mapping natural language instructions to sequences of executable actions. We assume access to a reward function tha...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke S. Zettlemoyer,...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query workload-aware overlay construction using histograms
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Georgia Koloniari, Yannis Petrakis, Evaggelia Pito...
ICDT
2001
ACM
116views Database» more  ICDT 2001»
14 years 6 days ago
On Optimizing Nearest Neighbor Queries in High-Dimensional Data Spaces
Abstract. Nearest-neighbor queries in high-dimensional space are of high importance in various applications, especially in content-based indexing of multimedia data. For an optimiz...
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Daniel A. K...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Diversifying web search results
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...
Davood Rafiei, Krishna Bharat, Anand Shukla
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
214views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
ParaTimer: a progress indicator for MapReduce DAGs
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...
Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman