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AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Semantics for Cost Based Abduction
Cost-based abduction attempts to find the best explanation for a set of facts by finding a minimal cost proof for the facts. The costs are computed by summing the costs of the ass...
Eugene Charniak, Solomon Eyal Shimony
RR
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
A Probabilistic Abduction Engine for Media Interpretation Based on Ontologies
For multimedia interpretation, and in particular for the combined interpretation of information coming from different modalities, a semantically well-founded formalization is requ...
Oliver Gries, Ralf Möller, Anahita Nafissi, M...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
FORMATS
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Performance Analysis of Probabilistic Timed Automata Using Digital Clocks
Probabilistic timed automata, a variant of timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions, is a specification formalism suitable for describing both nondeterminis...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker,...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Generalized syntactic and semantic models of query reformulation
We present a novel approach to query reformulation which combines syntactic and semantic information by means of generalized Levenshtein distance algorithms where the substitution...
Amac Herdagdelen, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Daniel M...