How can it be said that texts are "near" or "distant" from one another? Are different texts by a single author more similar than texts by different authors? To...
This paper answers the following question: Given an \erector set" linkage, a connected set of xed-length links, what is the minimal needed to adjust the edge lengths so that ...
This article is not a research paper, but a little note on the history of combinatorics: we present here a tentative short biography of Henri Delannoy, and a survey of his most no...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
The quality of a sentence translated by a machine translation (MT) system is difficult to evaluate. We propose a method for automatically evaluating the quality of each translati...