Relevant knowledge helps in choosing right teacher: Active query selection for ranking adaptation

• Main Authors: CAI, Peng, GAO, Wei, WONG, Kam-Fai, ZHOU, Aoying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4594; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5597/viewcontent/p115_cai.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Learning to adapt in a new setting is a common challenge to our knowledge and capability. New life would be easier if we actively pursued supervision from the right mentor chosen with our relevant but limited prior knowledge. This variant principle of active learning seems intuitively useful to many...