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EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
Coreference systems are driven by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a simple approach which completely modularizes these three aspects. In contrast to muc...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Measuring system performance and topic discernment using generalized adaptive-weight mean
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Chung Tong Lee, Vishwa Vinay, Eduarda Mendes Rodri...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
A graph-theoretic approach to distributed control over networks
We consider a network of control systems connected over a graph. Considering the graph structure as constraints on the set of permissible controllers, we show that such systems ar...
John Swigart, Sanjay Lall
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
WISE
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
The Ubiquitous DBMS
Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database systems that can be used in small devices such as sensors, cellular phones, PDAs, car navigator...
Kyu-Young Whang
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Assessing the Value of Contributions in Tagging Systems
-- Assessing the value of individual users' contributions in peer-production systems is paramount to the design of mechanisms that support collaboration and improve users'...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. ...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Supporting human-intensive systems
Executing critical systems often rely on humans to make important and sometimes life-critical decisions. As such systems become more complex, the potential for human error to lead...
Lori A. Clarke, Leon J. Osterweil, George S. Avrun...
SIES
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
An Energy-Aware Algorithm for TDMA MAC Protocols in Real-Time Wireless Networks
Abstract--In distributed embedded systems operated by battery, energy management is a critical issue that has to be addressed at different architecture levels. For systems that tig...
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
OWL-POLAR: Semantic Policies for Agent Reasoning
Abstract. Policies are declarations of constraints on the behaviour of components within distributed systems, and are often used to capture norms within agent-based systems. A few ...
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Weber Va...
SASO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Experience Report in Developing and Applying a Method for Self-Organisation to Agile Manufacturing
The design and implementation of distributed, self-organising and self-adaptive systems are challenging. In this article we report on our experience gained during the development o...
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Regina Frei