This paper describes a method for definition question answering based on the use of surface text patterns. The method is specially suited to answer questions about person's po...
The collection of waste is a highly visible and important municipal service that involves large expenditures. Waste collection problems are, however, one of the most difficult ope...
This paper describes the use of machine learning to improve the performance of natural language question answering systems. We present a model for improving story comprehension th...
In this paper, a mosaicing-by-recognition technique is proposed where video mosaicing and text recognition are simultaneously and collaboratively optimized in a one-step manner. S...
Abstract— Distributed stream-based applications, such as continuous query systems, have network scale and time characteristics that challenge traditional distributed query optimi...
Jeffrey Shneidman, Peter R. Pietzuch, Matt Welsh, ...