Early question and answering (QA) systems focused on keyword search among documents for answers. However, such systems can only answer fact-based questions. It becomes clear that ...
Indexing and retrieval techniques for homology searching of genomic databases are increasingly important as the search tools are facing great challenges of rapid growth in sequence...
Simon M. C. Yuen, Fu-Lai Chung, Robert Wing Pong L...
In the context of web search engines, the escalation between ranking techniques and spamdexing techniques has led to the appearance of faked contents in web pages. If random sequen...
Many archives have introduced online archival databases in the past few years. However, apart from being independent of place and time, hardly any of these databases make finding ...
For probabilistic reasoning, one often needs to sample from a combinatorial space. For example, one may need to sample uniformly from the space of all satisfying assignments. Can ...