We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of query processing on an XML interface of a relational database, for predefined query workloads. The main contribution of this ...
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been promising methods for classification and regression analysis because of their solid mathematical foundations which convey several salient ...
Consider the problem of estimating the -level set G = {x : f(x) } of an unknown d-dimensional density function f based on n independent observations X1, . . . , Xn from the densi...
The use of statistical pattern recognition models to segment the left ventricle of the heart in ultrasound images has gained substantial attention over the last few years. The mai...