We present a trainable sequential-inference technique for processes with large state and observation spaces and relational structure. Our method assumes "reliable observation...
CoIL challenge 2000 was a supervised learning contest that attracted 43 entries. The authors of 29 entries later wrote explanations of their work. This paper discusses these repor...
Abstract. In this paper we present an eficient protocol for “Committed Oblivious Transfer” to perform oblivious transfer on committed bits: suppose Alice is committed to bits 0...
Parse-tree paths are commonly used to incorporate information from syntactic parses into NLP systems. These systems typically treat the paths as atomic (or nearly atomic) features...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...