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WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
Selecting actions for resource-bounded information extraction using reinforcement learning
Given a database with missing or uncertain content, our goal is to correct and fill the database by extracting specific information from a large corpus such as the Web, and to d...
Pallika H. Kanani, Andrew K. McCallum
CHB
2011
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13 years 3 months ago
Web Wisdom: An essay on how Web 2.0 and Semantic Web can foster a global knowledge society
Admittedly this is a presumptuous title that should never be used when reporting on individual research advances. Wisdom is just not a scientific concept. In this case, though, w...
Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Information Acquisition and Exploitation in Multichannel Wireless Networks
A wireless system with multiple channels is considered, where each channel has several transmission states. A user learns about the instantaneous state of an available channel by ...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala, Saswati Sarkar
DELOS
2000
14 years 27 days ago
Serendipitous Information Retrieval
The acquisition of information is generally thought to be deliberately sought using a search or query mechanism or by browsing or scanning an information space. People, however, f...
Elaine G. Toms
DAGSTUHL
2007
14 years 29 days ago
Signalling Preferences in Interviewing Markets
The process of match formation in matching markets can be divided into three parts: information sharing, investments in information acquisition, and the formation of matches based...
Robin S. Lee, Michael A. Schwarz