We present a distributed index data structure and algorithms devised to support parallel query processing of multimedia content in search engines. We present a comparative study wi...
Abstract. We consider a control problem where the decision maker interacts with a standard Markov decision process with the exception that the reward functions vary arbitrarily ove...
This paper presents a method for the automatic generation of a table-of-contents. This type of summary could serve as an effective navigation tool for accessing information in lon...
S. R. K. Branavan, Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzila...
While considering processes of decision making we often encounter the problem of incomplete information. In group decision making (GDM) problems each decision maker is supposed to...
Contradiction Detection (CD) in text is a difficult NLP task. We investigate CD over functions (e.g., BornIn(Person)=Place), and present a domain-independent algorithm that automa...
Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Doug Downey, Oren ...