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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Hierarchical pitman-yor language model for information retrieval
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Dietrich Klakow
AIPS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Probabilistic Planning through Weighted Model Counting
We present a new algorithm for probabilistic planning with no observability. Our algorithm, called Probabilistic-FF, extends the heuristic forward-search machinery of Conformant-F...
Carmel Domshlak, Jörg Hoffmann
AAAI
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Probabilistic Modeling for Combinatorial Optimization
Probabilistic models have recently been utilized for the optimization of large combinatorial search problems. However, complex probabilistic models that attempt to capture interpa...
Shumeet Baluja, Scott Davies
EWCBR
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Feature Selection for Text Data
Feature selection for unsupervised tasks is particularly challenging, especially when dealing with text data. The increase in online documents and email communication creates a nee...
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Lothian, Stewart Massie