This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingu...
In main-memory databases, the number of processor cache misses has a critical impact on the performance of the system. Cacheconscious indices are designed to improve performance b...
The efficient management of interval data represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tree1 ), an effi...
Our world today is generating huge amounts of graph data such as social networks, biological networks, and the semantic web. Many of these real-world graphs are edge-labeled graph...
Ruoming Jin, Hui Hong, Haixun Wang, Ning Ruan, Yan...
The success of personal information agents depends on their ability to provide task-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, a new algorithm that generates context des...