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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"knowledge sources"”.
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Learning to answer questions from semi-structured knowledge sources
… -- infoboxes in Wikipedia that summarize factoid knowledge -- and develop a comprehensive approach to answering questions with high precision. I first build a system to access data in infoboxes in a structured manner. I use the system to construct a crowdsourced dataset of over 15,000 …
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Recognition of words from their spellings : integration of multiple knowledge sources
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987.
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A Study to Identify the Knowledge Sources Used by Nine Elementary School Principals in Virginia
… about elementary school principals' use of knowledge sources to support their instructional leadership. This study identified the knowledge sources used by nine elementary school principals, discovered the barriers they faced in using the sources, and revealed how they guided their teachers …
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Multi-objective cultural algorithms
… In addition to that, we want to observe how the knowledge sources and agent topologies within a Cultural Algorithm interact with each other during the problem solving process.</p> <p>The MOCA system was evaluated against the ZDT test set proposed by Zitzler (2000). Some basic results that were …
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Towards a unified framework for sub-lexical and supra-lexical linguistic modeling
… lives in a rich system environment. Diverse sources of knowledge are available and can potentially be beneficial to its robustness and accuracy. For example, the natural language understanding component can provide linguistic knowledge in syntax and semantics that helps constrain the …
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Evolving Heterogeneous And Subcultured Social Networks For Optimization Problem Solving In Cultural Algorithms
… consisting of a network of active and passive knowledge sources and a Population Space of agents. The agents are connected via a social fabric over which information used in agent problem solving is passed. The knowledge sources in the Belief Space compete with each other in order to influence …
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Who Should I Trust? Uncertainty and Risk for Knowledge Transfer from Multiple Sources in Reinforcement Learning Domains
… learning mitigates this problem by using prior knowledge obtained by solving one set of tasks in order to accelerate the convergence on future tasks. However, while many frameworks have been proposed to successfully transfer different kinds of knowledge representations between tasks, existing …
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Studies of active information in search.
… at extracting the information from the available knowledge sources.
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
… The question it attempts to answer is: What knowledge and power relationships are embedded within depictions of lane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in 2007? The methodology is a version of critical discourse analysis based on Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge. It finds that …
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A cooperative distributed problem-solving framework
… owing to the increased spectral nature of knowledge, and efficient knowledge acquisition. In addition, the CDPS framework facilitates the coupling of disparate knowledge sources by means of a robust communication protocol, this facilitates the coupling of artificial intelligence (AI) …
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Culture-driven innovation
… with the potential of underexplored cultural sources for innovation. Nowadays, firms recognize an increasing demand for innovation to keep pace with an ever-growing dynamic worldwide competition. Knowledge is one of the most crucial sources and resource, while until now innovation has been …
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The geographic sources of innovation in the multinational enterprise : U.S. subsidiaries and host country spillovers, 1980-1990
… of questions about the spatial location of the knowledge sources that underpin and inform innovations developed by foreign subsidiaries. Where foreign subsidiaries draw their scientific, technical, and commercial ideas from during the process of generating knowledge is a central concern in …
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Towards Large Language Models for Everyone: Instruction Following, Knowledge Retrieval and Multilingualism
… user requests. Secondly, LLMs suffer from knowledge cut-off and tend to hallucinate about long-tail facts. Lastly, popular LLMs are trained on almost exclusively English text, making it difficult for non-English speakers to adopt them. This thesis presents methodologies addressing all three …
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Effective Knowledge Transfer: A Terminological Perspective - Dismantling The Jargon Barrier To Knowledge About Computer Security
… experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognized but unresolved problem of communication between the specialist and the layman. The …
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A concurrent architecture for a travel planning application
… tasks and subtasks rather than declarative knowledge sources. Unlike blackboard systems, the solutions that are created are distributed amongst the objects rather than centralized, so some communication between objects is necessary. We discuss our Java(TM) implementation of the travel …
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Effective knowledge transfer: a terminological perspective - Dismantling the jargon barrier to knowledge about computer security
… experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognised but unresolved problem of communication between the specialist and the layman. The …
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Designing personal assistant software for task management using semantic web technologies and knowledge databases
… be designed using semantic web technologies and knowledge databases to understand the relations between the tasks. Agent will be integrated with online web-services to harvest the data available on-line with the data available on the device and help the user to manage his or her tasks. Two use …
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The comprehension skills of children learning English as an additional language (EAL)
… designed to investigate and extend current knowledge in relation to the comprehension skills of children learning EAL and their monolingual peers. Children in school Years 3 and 4 completed a range of measures which reflect the knowledge sources and component processes that are critical to …
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