: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
This paper explores how to exploit shape information to perform object class recognition. We use a sparse partbased model to describe object categories defined by shape. The spars...
Josephine Sullivan, Oscar M. Danielsson, Stefan Ca...
Most Web-based Q/A systems work by finding pages that contain an explicit answer to a question. These systems are helpless if the answer has to be inferred from multiple sentences...
Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
Service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as the eminent market environment for sharing and reusing service-centric capabilities. The underpinning for an organization's us...
Srividya Kona, Ajay Bansal, M. Brian Blake, Gopal ...
Compiling Bayesian networks (BNs) is one of the hot topics in the area of probabilistic modeling and processing. In this paper, we propose a new method of compiling BNs into multi...