The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
—The correct interpretation of many molecular biology experiments depends in an essential way on the accuracy and consistency of the existing annotation databases. Such databases...
The mean first passage time (MFPT) is calculated for a Brownian particle in a bounded two-dimensional domain that contains N small nonoverlapping absorbing windows on its boundary....
S. Pillay, Michael J. Ward, A. Peirce, Theodore Ko...
Abstract--In this paper we develop a new analytical methodology for the evaluation of the outage probability of cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) r...
Sangkook Lee, Weifeng Su, Stella N. Batalama, John...
Probabilistic database systems have successfully established themselves as a tool for managing uncertain data. However, much of the research in this area has focused on efficient...