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EMNLP
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Instance-Based Question Answering: A Data-Driven Approach
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Jaime G. Carbonell
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
Evaluating Probabilistic Queries over Imprecise Data
Many applications employ sensors for monitoring entities such as temperature and wind speed. A centralized database tracks these entities to enable query processing. Due to contin...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
DBISP2P
2005
Springer
105views Database» more  DBISP2P 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Semantic Caching in Schema-Based P2P-Networks
In this paper, we present the use of semantic caching in the environment of schema-based super-peer networks. Different from traditional caching, semantic caching allows the answe...
Ingo Brunkhorst, Hadhami Dhraief
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
100views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
A Disk-Based Join With Probabilistic Guarantees
One of the most common operations in analytic query processing is the application of an aggregate function to the result of a relational join. We describe an algorithm for computi...
Chris Jermaine, Alin Dobra, Subramanian Arumugam, ...
ICTAI
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Answering Complex Questions Using Query-Focused Summarization Technique
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty