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WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Ranking distributed probabilistic data
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Jeffrey Jestes
ALPIT
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
Toward DB-IR Integration: Per-Document Basis Transactional Index Maintenance
While information retrieval (IR) and databases (DB) have been developed independently, there have been emerging requirements that both data management and efficient text retrieva...
Jinsuk Kim, Du-Seok Jin, Yunsoo Choi, Chang-Hoo Je...
MOBIDE
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Consistency mechanisms for a distributed lookup service supporting mobile applications
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Waldhorst
DAGSTUHL
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Point-set algorithms for pattern discovery and pattern matching in music
An algorithm that discovers the themes, motives and other perceptually significant repeated patterns in a musical work can be used, for example, in a music information retrieval sy...
David Meredith