A Bayesian technique for estimating the credibility of question answerers

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 130

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 399-409

  Dom, Byron ^a   Paranjpe, Deepa ^a  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY MEASURES; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; HIDDEN VARIABLE; QUESTION ANSWERING; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; STOCHASTIC COMPLEXITY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 52649103009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611972788.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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