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With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Yi Tay

Huge volumes of patient queries are daily generated on online health forums, rendering manual doctor allocation a labor-intensive task. To better help patients, this paper studies a novel task of doctor recommendation to enable automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiaoxin Lu , Yubo Zhang , Jing Li , Shi Zong

Expert workers make non-trivial decisions with significant implications. Experts' decision accuracy is thus a fundamental aspect of their judgment quality, key to both management and consumers of experts' services. Yet, in many important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Wanxue Dong , Maytal Saar-Tsechansky , Tomer Geva

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for extracting useful knowledge from data and there are several useful KDD tools to extracting the knowledge. This knowledge can be used to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Surjeet Kumar Yadav , Brijesh Bharadwaj , Saurabh Pal

In this paper, we present the step by step knowledge acquisition process by choosing a structured method through using a questionnaire as a knowledge acquisition tool. Here we want to depict the problem domain as, how to evaluate teachers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Hafeez Ullah Amin , Abdur Rashid Khan

In recent years, representation learning has become the research focus of the machine learning community. Large-scale neural networks are a crucial step toward achieving general intelligence, with their success largely attributed to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lifeng Gu

A widely used paradigm to improve the generalization performance of high-capacity neural models is through the addition of auxiliary unsupervised tasks during supervised training. Tasks such as similarity matching and input reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

A method for aggregation of expert estimates in small groups is proposed. The method is based on combinatorial approach to decomposition of pair-wise comparison matrices and to processing of expert data. It also uses the basic principles of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Vitaliy Tsyganok , Sergii Kadenko , Oleh Andriichuk , Pavlo Roik

Entity linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

This paper addresses the problem of rank aggregation, which aims to find a consensus ranking among multiple ranking inputs. Traditional rank aggregation methods are deterministic, and can be categorized into explicit and implicit methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Shuzi Niu , Yanyan Lan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Training AI models that generalize across tasks and domains has long been among the open problems driving AI research. The emergence of Foundation Models made it easier to obtain expert models for a given task, but the heterogeneity of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Hongyi Wang , Felipe Maia Polo , Yuekai Sun , Souvik Kundu , Eric Xing , Mikhail Yurochkin

Recent years have brought significant advances to Natural Language Processing (NLP), which enabled fast progress in the field of computational job market analysis. Core tasks in this application domain are skill extraction and…

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A significant part of human activity today consists of searching for a piece of information online, utilizing knowledge repositories. This endeavor may be time-consuming if the individual searching for the information is unfamiliar with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Rohit Negi

Recent research suggests that combining AI models with a human expert can exceed the performance of either alone. The combination of their capabilities is often realized by learning to defer algorithms that enable the AI to learn to decide…

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Classification of some objects in classes of concepts is an essential and even breathtaking task in many applications. A solution is discussed here based on Multi-Agent systems. A kernel of some expert agents in several classes is to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-03-01 Nima Mirbakhsh , Arman Didandeh

Much work in Social Network Analysis has focused on the identification of the most important actors in a social network. This has resulted in several measures of influence and authority. While most of such sociometrics (e.g., PageRank) are…

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Recommending appropriate algorithms to a classification problem is one of the most challenging issues in the field of data mining. The existing algorithm recommendation models are generally constructed on only one kind of meta-features by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guangtao Wang , Qinbao Song , Xiaoyan Zhu

Educational recommender systems have become a necessity in the recent years due to overload of available educational resource which makes it difficult for an individual to manually hunt for the required resource on the internet. E-learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Nethra Viswanathan

Consider a collection of m competing machine learning algorithms. Given their performance on a benchmark of datasets, we would like to identify the best performing algorithm. Specifically, which algorithm is most likely to ``win'' (rank…

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