"An ASIC (pronounced “a-sick”; bold typeface defines a new term) is an application-specific integrated circuit —at least that is what the acronym stands for. Before we a...
A halfspace matrix is a Boolean matrix A with rows indexed by linear threshold functions f, columns indexed by inputs x ∈ {−1,1}n, and the entries given by Af,x = f(x). We dem...
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results o...
We present a Question-Answering (QA) system for Portuguese juridical documents. The QA system was applied to the complete set of decisions from several Portuguese juridical instit...
Let S be a set of points in the plane. What is the minimum possible dilation of all plane graphs that contain S? Even for a set S as simple as five points evenly placed on the ci...