The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...
In a question answering (QA) system, the fundamental problem is how to measure the distance between a question and an answer, hence ranking different answers. We demonstrate that s...
Traditional approaches to rule-based information extraction (IE) have primarily been based on regular expression grammars. However, these grammar-based systems have difficulty scal...
Frederick Reiss, Sriram Raghavan, Rajasekar Krishn...
Model-based diagnosis applied to computer programs has been studied for several years. Although there are still weaknesses in the used models, especially on dealing with dynamic da...
Today’s RFID protocols that govern the communication between RFID readers and tags are solely optimized for performance, but fail to address consumer privacy concerns by support...
Christian Floerkemeier, Roland Schneider, Marc Lan...