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LISA
2003
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Three Practical Ways to Improve Your Network
This paper presents three simple techniques for improving network service using relatively unknown features of many existing networks. The resulting system provides greater reliab...
Kevin Miller
NAACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
An Analysis of Clarification Dialogue for Question Answering
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Marco De Boni, Suresh Manandhar
SODA
2003
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
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Counting inversions in lists
In a recent paper, Ajtai et al. [1] give a streaming algorithm to count the number of inversions in a stream Ä ¾ Ñ Ò using two passes and Ç´¯ ½ ÔÒÐÓ Ò´ÐÓ Ñ·ÐÓ...
Anupam Gupta, Francis Zane
TREC
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
KRDB
1998
93views Database» more  KRDB 1998»
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Intelligent Caching for Information Mediators: A KR Based Approach
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi