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HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Detecting Document Genre for Personalization of Information Retrieval
We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Lookahead-based algorithms for anytime induction of decision trees
The majority of the existing algorithms for learning decision trees are greedy--a tree is induced top-down, making locally optimal decisions at each node. In most cases, however, ...
Saher Esmeir, Shaul Markovitch
SEKE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting the Requirements Prioritization Process. A Machine Learning approach
Requirements prioritization plays a key role in the requirements engineering process, in particular with respect to critical tasks such as requirements negotiation and software re...
Paolo Avesani, Cinzia Bazzanella, Anna Perini, Ang...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing estimated loss reduction for active sampling in rank learning
Learning to rank is becoming an increasingly popular research area in machine learning. The ranking problem aims to induce an ordering or preference relations among a set of insta...
Pinar Donmez, Jaime G. Carbonell