This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
An important task of opinion mining is to extract people's opinions on features of an entity. For example, the sentence, "I love the GPS function of Motorola Droid"...
Lei Zhang, Bing Liu, Suk Hwan Lim, Eamonn O'Brien-...
This paper proposes a fast decoupling capacitance (decap) allocation and budgeting algorithm for both early stage decap estimation and later stage decap minimization in today’s ...
Hang Li, Zhenyu Qi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Lifeng Wu, ...
Dynamic predication has been proposed to reduce the branch misprediction penalty due to hard-to-predict branch instructions. A recently proposed dynamic predication architecture, ...
Despite extensive study over the last four decades and numerous applications, no I/O-efficient algorithm is known for the union-find problem. In this paper we present an I/O-effic...