State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
Geometric constraint solving is a key issue in CAD/CAM. Since Owen’s seminal paper, solvers typically use graph based decomposition methods. However, these methods become diffi...
One of today’s challenges is producing reliable software in the face of an increasing number of interacting components. Our system CHET lets developers define specifications des...
As the Model Driven Development (MDD) and Product Line Engineering (PLE) appear as major trends for reducing software development complexity and costs, an important missing stone b...
Reda Bendraou, Philippe Desfray, Marie-Pierre Gerv...