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ACL
1997
15 years 1 months ago
A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis
We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how several problem...
Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler
CORR
2010
Springer
149views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 12 months ago
Group Testing with Probabilistic Tests: Theory, Design and Application
Identification of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name of group testing. It involves grouping subsets of items...
Mahdi Cheraghchi, Ali Hormati, Amin Karbasi, Marti...
ECCC
2008
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14 years 12 months ago
Universal Semantic Communication II: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Communication
We continue the investigation of the task of meaningful communication among intelligent entities (players, agents) without any prior common language. Our generic thesis is that su...
Brendan Juba, Madhu Sudan
EC
1998
112views ECommerce» more  EC 1998»
14 years 11 months ago
DNA Computation: Theory, Practice, and Prospects
L. M. Adleman launched the field of DNA computing with a demonstration in 1994 that strands of DNA could be used to solve the Hamiltonian path problem for a simple graph. He also...
Carlo C. Maley
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness in Network Resource Allocation
We present a set of five axioms for fairness measures in resource allocation. A family of fairness measures satisfying the axioms is constructed. Well-known notions such as -fairne...
Tian Lan, David Kao, Mung Chiang, Ashutosh Sabharw...