09181 Working Group on Hybridization between R&S, DoE and Optimization (2009)
Chen, Chun-Hung, Hong, Liu, Kantor, Paul B., Morton, David P., Pichitlamken, Juta, Seeger, Matthias
This is the report of the working group on the relation between, or hybrid combination of design experiment optimization and R&S. The rapporteur, Paul Kantor, learned a great deal at the conference...
Evaluation of digital libraries: A DEA approach (2008)
As libraries evolve from paper based to digitized collection, traditional measurement activities must change. To demonstrate the growth in library value during this transition period, libraries must...
User-Centered Evaluation of Interactive Question Answering Systems (2008)
Diane Kelly, Paul B. Kantor, Emile L. Morse, Jean Scholtz, Ying Sun
We describe a large-scale evaluation of four interactive question answering system with real users. The purpose of the evaluation was to develop evaluation methods and metrics for interactive QA...
Application of Logical Analysis of Data to the TREC6 Routing Task (2007)
Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, Jung J. Lee, Kwong Bor, Ng Di Zhao, Di Zhao
mples is given a weight determined by the number of examples that it matches. 2 Detailed Procedures of the Official Runs 2.1 Training For each topic, we used MG to index all the judged relevant...
Comparing Information Filtering Systems Using the (2007)
Yuval Elovici, Paul B. Kantor, Bracha Shapira
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. One of the authors (PBK) gratefully acknowledges the support of
When Just One is Enough (2007)
Information retrieval systems today scan large data spaces in response to the user's information need, returning lists of retrievables ordered by relevance [11]. In the general case, the...
Logical Analysis of Data (2007)
Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David J. Neu
In the TREC-9 adaptive ltering and routing sub-tasks of the ltering track we continued to explore utilizing the Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) machine learning methodology to develop Boolean...
MonitoringMessar Streari (2007)
Algorithmic Methods Forautoma, Paul B. Kantor, Fred S. Roberts
The problem of monitoring message streams is decomposed into problems in compression, representation, matching, learning and data fusion. A coordinated approach is anticipated to yield incremental...
Cross-evaluation: A new model for information system evaluation (2006)
In this article, we introduce a new information system evaluation method and report on its application to a collaborative information seeking system, AntWorld. The key innovation of the new method is...
Monitoring Message Streams: Algorithmic Methods for Automatic Processing of Messages (2003)
Paul B. Kantor, Fred S. Roberts
The problem of monitoring message streams is decomposed into problems in compression, representation, matching, learning and data fusion. A coordinated approach aimed at improvements in each of the...
Quantum Message Disruption: A Two-State Model (2000)
A game in which one player makes unitary transformations of a simple system, and another seeks to confound the resulting state by a randomly chosen action is analyzed carefully. It is shown that the...
Predicting the effectiveness of naive data fusion on the basis of system characteristics (2000)
∗ To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Effective automation of the information retrieval task has long been an active area of research, leading to sophisticated retrieval models. With...
The TREC-5 confusion track: Comparing retrieval methods for scanned text (2000)
Paul B. Kantor, Ellen M. Voorhees
A known-item search is a particular information retrieval task in which the system is asked to find a single target document in a large document set. The TREC-5 confusion track used a set of 49...
Pheromonic representation of user quests by digital structures (1999)
Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, Dave J. Neu
Inanovel approach to information nding in networked environments, each user's speci c purpose or \quest" can be represented in numerous ways. The most familiar is a list of keywords, or...
Paul B. Kantor, Tefko Saracevic
In anticipation of the explosive growth of digital libraries, a complex study was undertaken seeking to evaluate 21 diverse services at 5 major academic research libraries. This work stands as a...
Models of the behavior of people searching the Internet: A Petri Net approach (1999)
Paul B. Kantor, Ragnar Nordlie
Previous models of searching behavior have taken as their foundation the Markov model of random processes. In this model, the next action that a user takes is determined by a probabilistic rule which...
Models of the behavior of people searching the Internet: A Petri Net approach (1999)
Paul B. Kantor, Ragnar Nordlie
Previous models of searching behavior have taken as their foundation the Markov model of random processes. In this model, the next action that a user takes is determined by a probabilistic rule which...
Pheromonic Representation of User Quests by Digital Structures (1999)
Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, Dave J. Neu
In a novel approach to information nding in networked environments, each user's specic purpose or \quest" can be represented in numerous ways. The most familiar is a list of keywords, or a...
Kantor, Paul B., Blankenbecler, Richard, Cherikh, Moula
This research applies optimal control and experimental design theories to management of a multidetector system including the cost of false alarms, misses, communications and improvements in operating...
Comparison of Systems Using Pairs-Out-of-Order (1998)
Paul Kantor And, Paul B. Kantor, Kwong Bor Ng
this report we summarize the computation of the inter-system dissimilarities, and the results for the TREC4 systems and topics.
A novel economic approach to the evaluation of academic libraries (1998)
With the explosion of digitized information, libraries stand at the cutting edge for research universities and other institutions of higher education. At the same time, libraries are under increasing...
Tefko Saracevic, Paul B. Kantor
These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall We conclude the paper with suggestions for applications those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese in practice, particularly in...
Tefko Saracevic, Paul B. Kantor
Of everything which we posses there are two uses. Both belong to the thing as such, but not in the same manner....Forexample, a shoe is used for wear, and is used for exchange; both are uses of a...
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Capturing human intelligence in the net (0000)
The article focuses on cognitive modeling for games and animation The article explores a software system called AntWorld, which integrates humans as part of the enabling technology to...
Capturing human intelligence in the net
The article focuses on cognitive modeling for games and animation The article explores a software system called AntWorld, which integrates humans as part of the enabling technology to...
Data Fusion of Machine-Learning Methods for the TREC5 Routing Task (and other work)
Kwong Bor, David Loewenstern, Chumki Basu, Haym Hirsh, Paul B. Kantor
The goal of the document routing task is to extrapolate from documents judged relevant or irrelevant for each of a set of topics accurate procedures for assessing the relevance of future documents...