In a new model for answer retrieval, document collections are distilled offline into large repositories of facts. Each fact constitutes a potential direct answer to questions seek...
We propose a Web search site called "Cyclone", in which a user can retrieve encyclopedic term descriptions on the Web. Cyclone searches the Web for headwords and page fr...
We consider the following problem: given an unsorted array of n elements, and a sequence of intervals in the array, compute the median in each of the subarrays defined by the inter...
We define stochastic timed games, which extend two-player timed games with probabilities (following a recent approach by Baier et al), and which extend in a natural way continuous-...
In this paper we present a new way of translating documents by using a Web-based system. An interactive approach is proposed as an alternative to post-editing the output of a mach...