—Location information is necessarily uncertain when objects are constantly moving. The cost can be high to maintain precise locations at the application server for all the object...
Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opin...
Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy, Mark S. A...
We present methods to answer two basic questions that arise when benchmarking optimization algorithms. The first one is: which algorithm is the `best' one? and the second one:...
Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related ta...
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...