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NLDB
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lightweight Natural Language Database Interfaces
Most natural language database interfaces suffer from the translation knowledge portability problem, and are vulnerable to ill-formed questions because of their deep analysis. To a...
In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee, Gijoo Y...
AMAST
2004
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Linear Temporal Logic and Z Refinement
Since Z, being a state-based language, describes a system in terms of its state and potential state changes, it is natural to want to describe properties of a specified system also...
John Derrick, Graeme Smith
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Algorithmic inferencing of aesthetics and emotion in natural images: An exposition
Initial studies have shown that automatic inference of high-level image quality or aesthetics is very challenging. The ability to do so, however, can prove beneficial in many appl...
Ritendra Datta, Jia Li, James Ze Wang
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
We present the first unsupervised approach to the problem of learning a semantic parser, using Markov logic. Our USP system transforms dependency trees into quasi-logical forms, r...
Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos
EDBT
2011
ACM
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13 years 9 hour ago
Predicting completion times of batch query workloads using interaction-aware models and simulation
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shiv...