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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
JMLR
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Optimal Structure Identification With Greedy Search
In this paper we prove the so-called "Meek Conjecture". In particular, we show that if a DAG H is an independence map of another DAG G, then there exists a finite sequen...
David Maxwell Chickering
VLDB
1998
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
14 years 26 days ago
Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures
Mining for association rules in market basket data has proved a fruitful areaof research. Measures such as conditional probability (confidence) and correlation have been used to i...
Craig Silverstein, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing communication cost in a distributed Bayesian network using a decentralized MDP
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser, Norman Carver
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A model for handling approximate, noisy or incomplete labeling in text classification
We introduce a Bayesian model, BayesANIL, that is capable of estimating uncertainties associated with the labeling process. Given a labeled or partially labeled training corpus of...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Krishna Prasad Chitrapura, Ra...