: The use of patterns in data management is not new: in data warehousing, data marts are simple conceptual schemas with exactly one core entity, describing facts, surrounded by mul...
Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Maesani, St...
Abstract. Historically, information retrieval (IR) has followed two principally different paths that we call syntactic IR and semantic IR. In syntactic IR, terms are represented as...
Question answering research has only recently started to spread from short factoid questions to more complex ones. One significant challenge is the evaluation: manual evaluation i...
Joanna Mrozinski, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Sadaoki ...
It has been widely suggested that memory transactions should behave as if they acquired and released a single global lock. Unfortunately, this behavior can be expensive to achieve...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
This paper presents a new approach to extracting and representing structural features of images. The approach is based on both a region-based analysis and a contour-based analysis...