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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Enhancing expertise retrieval using community-aware strategies
Expertise retrieval has received increased interests in recent years, whose task is to suggest people with relevant expertise. Motivated by the observation that communities could ...
Hongbo Deng, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Compiling mappings to bridge applications and databases
Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...
Sergey Melnik, Atul Adya, Philip A. Bernstein
SAC
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A quasi-Newton acceleration for high-dimensional optimization algorithms
Abstract In many statistical problems, maximum likelihood estimation by an EM or MM algorithm suffers from excruciatingly slow convergence. This tendency limits the application of ...
Hua Zhou, David Alexander, Kenneth Lange
POPL
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Extensional normalisation and type-directed partial evaluation for typed lambda calculus with sums
We present a notion of -long ? -normal term for the typed lambda calculus with sums and prove, using Grothendieck logical relations, that every term is equivalent to one in norm...
Vincent Balat, Roberto Di Cosmo, Marcelo P. Fiore