We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
Discovering a bucket order B from a collection of possibly noisy full rankings is a fundamental problem that relates to various applications involving rankings. Informally, a buck...
Background: Mean-based clustering algorithms such as bisecting k-means generally lack robustness. Although componentwise median is a more robust alternative, it can be a poor cent...
Yuanyuan Ding, Xin Dang, Hanxiang Peng, Dawn Wilki...
We present a novel technique that speeds up state-space exploration (SSE) for evolving programs with dynamically allocated data. SSE is the essence of explicit-state model checkin...
Steven Lauterburg, Ahmed Sobeih, Darko Marinov, Ma...
Consensus clustering is the problem of reconciling clustering information about the same data set coming from different sources or from different runs of the same algorithm. Cast ...