We study the design issues of data-centric XML documents where (1) there are no mixed contents, i.e., each element may have some subelements and attributes, or it may have a singl...
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
Research on linear text segmentation has been an on-going focus in NLP for the last decade, and it has great potential for a wide range of applications such as document summarizati...
Jingbo Zhu, Na Ye, Xinzhi Chang, Wenliang Chen, Be...
Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
: We describe methods for automatically identifying signature blocks and reply lines in plaintext email messages. This analysis has many potential applications, such as preprocessi...