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AWIC
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems - The Need for New Tools
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Mint: Java multi-stage programming using weak separability
Multi-stage programming (MSP) provides a disciplined approach to run-time code generation. In the purely functional setting, it has been shown how MSP can be used to reduce the ov...
Edwin Westbrook, Mathias Ricken, Jun Inoue, Yilong...
PODS
2010
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Revenue maximization with a single sample
We design and analyze approximately revenue-maximizing auctions in general single-parameter settings. Bidders have publicly observable attributes, and we assume that the valuation...
Peerapong Dhangwatnotai, Tim Roughgarden, Qiqi Yan
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
147views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Socially desirable approximations for Dodgson's voting rule
In 1876 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson suggested the intriguing voting rule that today bears his name. Although Dodgson’s rule is one of the most well-studied voting rules, it suffers...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Nikos Ka...