The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Text Summarisation....
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
How do we build algorithms for agent interactions with human adversaries? Stackelberg games are natural models for many important applications that involve human interaction, such...
James Pita, Manish Jain, Milind Tambe, Fernando Or...
This paper investigates the problem of Partitioning Skew1 in MapReduce-based system. Our studies with Hadoop, a widely used MapReduce implementation, demonstrate that the presence ...
Shadi Ibrahim, Hai Jin, Lu Lu, Song Wu, Bingsheng ...
The goal of natural image denoising is to estimate a clean version of a given noisy image, utilizing prior knowledge on the statistics of natural images. The problem has been stud...