We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
Optimization of join queries based on average selectivities is suboptimal in highly correlated databases. In such databases, relations are naturally divided into partitions, each ...
Kostas Tzoumas, Amol Deshpande, Christian S. Jense...
We have designed and implemented a multi-linear discriminant method of constructing and quantifying statistically significant changes on human identity photographs. The method is...
Carlos E. Thomaz, Vagner do Amaral, Gilson Antonio...
Topological concepts and techniques have been broadly applied in computer graphics and geometric modeling. However, the homotopy type of a mapping between two surfaces has not bee...
Christopher Carner, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qi...
Volumetric images of small mortar samples under load are acquired by X-ray microtomography. The images are binarized at many different threshold values, and over a million connecte...
George Nagy, Tong Zhang, W. R. Franklin, Eric Land...