We address the classic wire-length estimation problem and propose a new statistical wire-length estimation approach that captures the probability distribution function of net leng...
Jennifer L. Wong, Azadeh Davoodi, Vishal Khandelwa...
Helpdesk databases are used to store past interactions between customers and companies to improve customer service quality. One common scenario of using helpdesk database is to fi...
Shenghuo Zhu, Tao Li, Zhiyuan Chen, Dingding Wang,...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
This paper presents a new discriminative model for information retrieval (IR), referred to as linear discriminant model (LDM), which provides a flexible framework to incorporate a...
This paper presents a novel approach to the unsupervised learning of syntactic analyses of natural language text. Most previous work has focused on maximizing likelihood according...