We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
Sign languages have been proven to be natural languages, as capable of expressing human thoughts and emotions as traditional languages are. The distinct visual and spatial nature ...
Beifang Yi, Frederick C. Harris Jr., Sergiu M. Das...
We describe a functional database language OR-SML for handling disjunctive information in database queries, and its implementation on top of Standard ML 12]. The core language has ...
The accessible specification of performance queries is a key challenge in performance analysis. To this end, we seek to combine the intuitive aspects of natural language query spec...
Lei Wang 0002, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J. Knot...
Circus is a refinement language, in which specifications define both data and behavioural aspects of concurrent systems using a combination of Z and CSP. Its refinement theory and...