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...
It has been well recognized that data mining is an interactive and iterative process. In order to support this process, one of the long-term goals of data mining research has been...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are distributed systems in which nodes of equal roles and capabilities exchange information and services directly with each other. In recent years, the...
This paper gives an overview of two middleware systems that have been developed over the last 6 years to address the challenges involved in developing parallel and distributed imp...
The tremendous number of rules generated in the mining process makes it necessary for any good data mining system to provide for powerful query primitives to post-process the gener...