Stemming can improve retrieval accuracy, but stemmers are language-specific. Character n-gram tokenization achieves many of the benefits of stemming in a language independent way,...
We give an O( log n) factor approximation algorithm for covering a rectilinear polygon with holes using axis-parallel rectangles. This is the first polynomial time approximation a...
We address the problem of suggesting who to add as an additional recipient (i.e. cc, or carbon copy) for an email under composition. We address the problem using graphical models ...
We present an O(lg lg n)-competitive online binary search tree, improving upon the best previous (trivial) competitive ratio of O(lg n). This is the first major progress on Sleator...
Erik D. Demaine, Dion Harmon, John Iacono, Mihai P...
We give an O(n log n) algorithm for computing the girth (shortest cycle) of an undirected n-vertex planar graph. Our solution extends to any graph of bounded genus. This improves u...