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CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
KES
2011
Springer
12 years 12 months ago
Recommendation for English multiple-choice cloze questions based on expected test scores
When students study for multiple-choice cloze tests as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), they tend to repeatedly tackle questions of the same type. In su...
Tomoharu Iwata, Tomoko Kojiri, Takeshi Yamada, Toy...
RECOMB
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Association Mapping of Complex Diseases with Ancestral Recombination Graphs: Models and Efficient Algorithms
Association, or LD (linkage disequilibrium), mapping is an intensely-studied approach to gene mapping (genome-wide or in candidate regions) that is widely hoped to be able to effic...
Yufeng Wu
CCR
2004
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13 years 4 months ago
Should we build Gnutella on a structured overlay?
There has been much interest in both unstructured and structured overlays recently. Unstructured overlays, like Gnutella, build a random graph and use flooding or random walks on ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Antony I. T. Rowstron