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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Active query selection for learning rankers
Methods that reduce the amount of labeled data needed for training have focused more on selecting which documents to label than on which queries should be labeled. One exception t...
Mustafa Bilgic, Paul N. Bennett
ALDT
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
Learning Complex Concepts Using Crowdsourcing: A Bayesian Approach
Abstract. We develop a Bayesian approach to concept learning for crowdsourcing applications. A probabilistic belief over possible concept definitions is maintained and updated acc...
Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton...
CORR
2011
Springer
201views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
On the Weakenesses of Correlation
The correlation of the result lists provided by search engines is fundamental and it has deep and multidisciplinary ramifications. Here, we present automatic and unsupervised met...
Paolo D'Alberto, Ali Dasdan
ISNN
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multiattribute Bayesian Preference Elicitation with Pairwise Comparison Queries
Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
Shengbo Guo, Scott Sanner