The generation of referring expressions (GRE), an important subtask of Natural Language Generation (NLG) is to generate phrases that uniquely identify domain entities. Until recen...
The advent of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU's) brings about a whole new platform for running numerically intensive applications at high speeds. Their multi-...
Michela Taufer, Omar Padron, Philip Saponaro, Sand...
Abstract--On NVIDIA's many-core GPUs, there is no synchronization function among parallel thread blocks. When finegranularity of data communication and synchronization is requ...
Jianmin Chen, Zhuo Huang, Feiqi Su, Jih-Kwon Peir,...
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...