Today’s one-pass analytics applications tend to be data-intensive in nature and require the ability to process high volumes of data efficiently. MapReduce is a popular programm...
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Probabilistic database systems have successfully established themselves as a tool for managing uncertain data. However, much of the research in this area has focused on efficient...
Information Extraction (IE) — the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured text — has become the key enabler for many enterprise applications such as sem...
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Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
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In many information networks, data items – such as updates in social networks, news flowing through interconnected RSS feeds and blogs, measurements in sensor networks, route u...