We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
This paper addresses the problem of configuring wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Specifically, we seek answers to the following questions: how many sensors should be deployed, wha...
One of the central problems in building broad-coverage story understanding systems is generating expectations about event sequences, i.e. predicting what happens next given some a...
Abstract. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms that are responsible for an organism's response to environmental changes is an important question in molecular biology. A fir...
Oliver Stegle, Katherine J. Denby, David L. Wild, ...
— In legged systems design an important question applies to: "What can be inferred from the performance of a legged robot of a similarly configured system, but scaled to a s...