This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...
Standard approaches to Chinese word segmentation treat the problem as a tagging task, assigning labels to the characters in the sequence indicating whether the character marks a w...
The omnipresence of unknown words is a problem that any NLP component needs to address in some form. While there exist many established techniques for dealing with unknown words i...
We discuss an implementation of the lexicographic version of Gomory's fractional cutting plane method and of two heuristics mimicking the latter. In computational testing on a...
Several works have shown that the covering test in relational learning exhibits a phase transition in its covering probability. It is argued that this phase transition dooms every...