Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
In this paper we present a robust software infrastructure for metacomputing. The system is intended to be used by others as a building block for large and powerful computational g...
The potential for faults in distributed computing systems is a significant complicating factor for application developers. While a variety of techniques exist for detecting and co...
Paul Stelling, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Crai...
Creating high-quality multimediapresentationsrequiresmuch skill, time, and effort. This is particularly true when temporal media, such as speech and animation, are involved. We de...
Mukesh Dalal, Steven Feiner, Kathleen McKeown, Shi...
Abstract. Research in context-aware systems shows that using context information enables the development of personalized mobile applications. The context acquisition process in a c...
Tom Broens, Aart van Halteren, Marten van Sinderen