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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Compare&contrast: using the web to discover comparable cases for news stories
Comparing and contrasting is an important strategy people employ to understand new situations and create solutions for new problems. Similar events can provide hints for problem s...
Jiahui Liu, Earl Wagner, Larry Birnbaum
SSDBM
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A Fast Approximation Scheme for Probabilistic Wavelet Synopses
Several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Haar wavelets in reducing large amounts of data down to compact wavelet synopses that can be used to obtain fast, accurate a...
Antonios Deligiannakis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Nick...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
VLDB
2008
ACM
170views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
A layered framework supporting personal information integration and application design for the semantic desktop
With the development of inexpensive storage devices, space usage is no longer a bottleneck for computer users. However, the increasingly large amount of personal information poses ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Huiyong Xiao
PODS
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Deterministic Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum-Error Metrics
Several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition as a tool for reducing large amounts of data down to compact wavelet synopses that can be used to ...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Amit Kumar