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AWIC
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems - The Need for New Tools
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
EDBT
1990
ACM
108views Database» more  EDBT 1990»
14 years 2 months ago
Deductive Databases - Theory Meets Practice
Deductive Databases are coming of age with the emergence of efficient and easy to use systems that support queries, reasoning, and application development on databases through dec...
Carlo Zaniolo
EDBT
2009
ACM
122views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Finding the influence set through skylines
Given a set P of products, a set O of customers, and a product p P, a bichromatic reverse skyline query retrieves all the customers in O that do not find any other product in P t...
Xiaobing Wu, Yufei Tao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Lin...
LWA
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Learning User-Adaptive State Models in a Conversational Recommender System
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci