Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
The creation of a complex web site is a thorny problem in user interface design. First, di erent visitors have distinct goals. Second, even a single visitor may have di erent need...
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
Abstract— This paper presents a robust algorithm for segmentation and line detection in 2D range scans. The described method exploits the multimodal probability density function ...
Good data layouts improve cache and TLB performance of object-oriented software, but unfortunately, selecting an optimal data layout a priori is NP-hard. This paper introduces layo...