A data mining system can semi-automatically discover knowledge by mining a large volume of data, but the discovered knowledge is not always novel and may contain unreasonable facts...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...
Web based services and applications have increased the availability and accessibility of information. XML has recently emerged as an important standard in the area of information ...
Abstract. Since uncalibrated images permit only projective reconstruction, metric information requires either camera or scene calibration. We propose a stratified approach to proje...
Optimising the parameters of ranking functions with respect to standard IR rank-dependent cost functions has eluded satisfactory analytical treatment. We build on recent advances ...
Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, S...