Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
Snapshot Isolation is a popular and efficient protocol for concurrency control. In this paper we discuss Snapshot Isolation in view of the classical theory for transaction process...
We present an unsupervised, nonparametric Bayesian approach to coreference resolution which models both global entity identity across a corpus as well as the sequential anaphoric ...
This paper addresses software plasticity, i.e. the ability of interactive systems to adapt to context of use while preserving user-centered properties. In plasticity, a classical a...
As natural language understanding research advances towards deeper knowledge modeling, the tasks become more and more complex: we are interested in more nuanced word characteristi...
Radu Florian, Hongyan Jing, Nanda Kambhatla, Imed ...