Paraphrasing methods recognize, generate, or extract phrases, sentences, or longer natural language expressions that convey almost the same information. Textual entailment methods...
Call control features (e.g., call-divert, voice-mail) are primitive options to which users can subscribe off-line to personalise their service. The configuration of a feature su...
David Lesaint, Deepak Mehta, Barry O'Sullivan, Lui...
The paper presents a scheme for computing lower and upper bounds on the posterior marginals in Bayesian networks with discrete variables. Its power lies in its ability to use any ...
This paper deals with value (and Q-) function approximation in deterministic Markovian decision processes (MDPs). A general statistical framework based on the Kalman filtering pa...
We study a setting where a principal needs to motivate a team of agents whose combination of hidden efforts stochastically determines an outcome. In a companion paper we devise an...