Passage retrieval is an important component common to many question answering systems. Because most evaluations of question answering systems focus on end-to-end performance, comp...
Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy J. Lin, Aaron F...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
An information retrieval IR engine can rank documents based on textual proximityof keywords within each document. In this paper we apply this notion to search across an entire dat...
Roy Goldman, Narayanan Shivakumar, Suresh Venkatas...
In this paper we design a nonadaptive NC checker for permutation group intersection, sharpening a result from Blum and Kannan 3]. This is a consequence of two results. First we sh...
Abstract. The database server is a crucial bottleneck in traditional inference control architecture, as it enforces highly computation-intensive auditing for all users who query th...