We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
Most malicious attacks compromise system security through memory corruption exploits. Recently proposed techniques attempt to defeat these attacks by protecting program control da...
Shuo Chen, Jun Xu, Nithin Nakka, Zbigniew Kalbarcz...
Since sensor data gathering is the primary functionality of sensor networks, it is important to provide a fault tolerant method for reasoning about sensed events in the face of ar...
Mark D. Krasniewski, Padma Varadharajan, Bryan Rab...
Collaborative filtering-based recommender systems, which automatically predict preferred products of a user using known preferences of other users, have become extremely popular ...