Many systems for tasks such as question answering, multi-document summarization, and information retrieval need robust numerical measures of lexical relatedness. Standard thesauru...
Abstract. In preference learning, the algorithm observes pairwise relative judgments (preference) between items as training data for learning an ordering of all items. This is an i...
We give a denotational semantics to a type and effect system tracking reading and writing to global variables holding values that may include higher-order effectful functions. Reļ...
Nick Benton, Andrew Kennedy, Lennart Beringer, Mar...
The XML language have been becoming de-facto a standard for representation of heterogeneous data in the Internet. From database point of view, XML is a new approach to data modelli...
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to ļ¬nd their desired facets in the ļ¬rst page of the results. However,...