Actions, answers, and uncertainty: A decision-making perspective on Web-based question answering

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 849-868

  Azari, David ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^b   Dumais, Susan ^b   Brill, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Cost benefit analysis; Decision theory; Information retrieval; Question answering

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DECISION-THEORETIC ANALYSES; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; QUESTION-ANSWERING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 3042856936     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.04.013     Document Type: Article

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