Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
The rising popularity of World Wide Web has brought portal solutions to a rapid development. More and more companies, agencies, departments have replaced or completed their Web si...
Emerging patterns (EPs) are associations of features whose frequencies increase significantly from one class to another. They have been proven useful to build powerful classifiers ...
Abstract. We consider the issue of task assignment in a distributed system under heavy-tailed (ie. highly variable) workloads. A new adaptable approach called TAPTF (Task Assignmen...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...