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ICGI
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Learning Context Free Grammars with the Syntactic Concept Lattice
The Syntactic Concept Lattice is a residuated lattice based on the distributional structure of a language; the natural representation based on this is a context sensitive formalism...
Alexander Clark
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Helper locks for fork-join parallel programming
Helper locks allow programs with large parallel critical sections, called parallel regions, to execute more efficiently by enlisting processors that might otherwise be waiting on ...
Kunal Agrawal, Charles E. Leiserson, Jim Sukha
COCO
2006
Springer
93views Algorithms» more  COCO 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
Making Hard Problems Harder
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
Joshua Buresh-Oppenheim, Rahul Santhanam
TCS
2010
14 years 8 months ago
Cops and Robbers from a distance
Cops and Robbers is a pursuit and evasion game played on graphs that has received much attention. We consider an extension of Cops and Robbers, distance k Cops and Robbers, where t...
Anthony Bonato, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Pawel Pralat
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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Mind the data skew: distributed inferencing by speeddating in elastic regions
Semantic Web data exhibits very skewed frequency distributions among terms. Efficient large-scale distributed reasoning methods should maintain load-balance in the face of such hi...
Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank van Harmelen