This paper examines the use of XML for modern extractionbased question answering (QA). We feel that the XML community has taken too narrow a view of structured retrieval, and that...
We propose an HMM Trajectory Tiling (HTT) approach to high quality TTS, which is our entry to Blizzard Challenge 2010. In HTT, first refined HMM is trained with the Minimum Genera...
Yao Qian, Zhi-Jie Yan, Yijian Wu, Frank K. Soong, ...
The demand for quickly delivering new applications is increasingly becoming a business imperative today. Application development is often done in an ad hoc manner, without standar...
Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran M. Karnik,...
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...