We present a new multi-dimensional data structure, which we call the skip quadtree (for point data in R2) or the skip octree (for point data in Rd, with constant d > 2). Our da...
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Jonathan Z. S...
In this paper, we report on a study that was performed within the "Semantics of History" project on how descriptions of historical events are realized in different types...
Many systems for tasks such as question answering, multi-document summarization, and information retrieval need robust numerical measures of lexical relatedness. Standard thesauru...
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
As huge quantities of documents have become available, services using natural language processing technologies trained by huge corpora have emerged, such as information retrieval ...