This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
For the management of digital document collections, automatic database analysis still has ties to deal with semantic queries and abstract concepts that users are looking for. When...
Given an object q, modeled by a multidimensional point, a reverse nearest neighbors (RNN) query returns the set of objects in the database that have q as their nearest neighbor. I...
Privacy becomes a more and more serious concern in applications involving microdata. Recently, efficient anonymization has attracted much research work. Most of the previous metho...
Jian Xu, Wei Wang 0009, Jian Pei, Xiaoyuan Wang, B...
In this paper, we propose a unified algorithmic framework for solving many known variants of MDS. Our algorithm is a simple iterative scheme with guaranteed convergence, and is m...
Arvind Agarwal, Jeff M. Phillips, Suresh Venkatasu...