With the advent of high-performance COTS clusters, there is a need for a simple, scalable and faulttolerant parallel programming and execution paradigm. In this paper, we show that...
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan, Roy H. ...
Wikipedia provides a wealth of knowledge, where the first sentence, infobox (and relevant sentences), and even the entire document of a wiki article could be considered as diverse...
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
Event based simulations are an important scientific application in many fields. With the rise of cluster computing, distributed event simulation optimization becomes an essential ...
In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2003 Genomics Track and the Robust Track. A common theme that we explored is the robustness of a basic language modeling retri...