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SODA
1992
ACM
252views Algorithms» more  SODA 1992»
15 years 8 months ago
A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems
We present a general approximation technique for a large class of graph problems. Our technique mostly applies to problems of covering, at minimum cost, the vertices of a graph wit...
Michel X. Goemans, David P. Williamson
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
269views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient approximate entity extraction with edit distance constraints
Named entity recognition aims at extracting named entities from unstructured text. A recent trend of named entity recognition is finding approximate matches in the text with respe...
Wei Wang 0011, Chuan Xiao, Xuemin Lin, Chengqi Zha...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
133views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
STAR: Steiner-Tree Approximation in Relationship Graphs
— Large graphs and networks are abundant in modern information systems: entity-relationship graphs over relational data or Web-extracted entities, biological networks, social onl...
Gjergji Kasneci, Maya Ramanath, Mauro Sozio, Fabia...
WEA
2004
Springer
150views Algorithms» more  WEA 2004»
16 years 2 days ago
Increased Bit-Parallelism for Approximate String Matching
Abstract. Bit-parallelism permits executing several operations simultaneously over a set of bits or numbers stored in a single computer word. This technique permits searching for t...
Heikki Hyyrö, Kimmo Fredriksson, Gonzalo Nava...
CSL
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Logic for Approximate First-Order Reasoning
Abstract. In classical approaches to knowledge representation, reasoners are assumed to derive all the logical consequences of their knowledge base. As a result, reasoning in the ï...
Frédéric Koriche