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IR
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
CPAIOR
2004
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Building Models through Formal Specification
Abstract. Over the past years, a number of increasingly expressive languages for modelling constraint and optimisation problems have evolved. In developing a strategy to ease the c...
Gerrit Renker, Hatem Ahriz
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
MMDB
2003
ACM
132views Multimedia» more  MMDB 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Image database retrieval utilizing affinity relationships
Recent research effort in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) focuses on bridging the gap between low-level features and highlevel semantic contents of images as this gap has bec...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...