In this paper, we revisit the master-slave tasking paradigm in the context of heterogeneous processors. We assume that communications take place in exclusive mode. We present a po...
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
A popular technique to improve the scalability of a web based system is caching at proxy servers. Caching has the drawback that a cached page becomes stale when the page is update...
This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch te...
Electronic procurement has been widely embraced by governments seeking the administrative efficiencies and cost reductions experienced in the private sector. The enthusiastic resp...