We present a method for extracting selectional preferences of verbs from unannotated text. These selectional preferences are linked to an ontology (e.g. the hypernym relations foun...
Abstract. The performance of classification algorithms in machine learning is affected by the features used to describe the labeled examples presented to the inducers. Therefore,...
Abstract. Internet coordinate systems appear promising as a method for estimating network distance without direct measurement, allowing scalable configuration of emerging applicat...
Selectivity estimation of path expressions in querying XML data plays an important role in query optimization. A path expression may contain multiple branches with predicates, each...
A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...