Abstract-- The need for efficient computation of approximate global state lies at the heart of a wide range of problems in distributed systems. Examples include routing in the Inte...
During the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, in particular, Information Extraction (IE) [2] which have fueled...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Amit Bagga, Lawrence O'Gorman, Jon L...
This paper discusses our participation in INEX using the TIJAH XML-IR system. We have enriched the TIJAH system, which follows a standard layered database architecture, with severa...
Abstract—We present the query-by-description (QBD) component of “Kandem,” a time-aware music retrieval system. The QBD system we describe learns a relation between descriptiv...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...