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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 12 months ago
Processing theta-joins using MapReduce
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Alper Okcan, Mirek Riedewald
GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A novel improvement to the R*-tree spatial index using gain/loss metrics
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Donghui Zhang, Tian Xia
ISPA
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Learning Fuzzy Concept Hierarchy and Measurement with Node Labeling
A concept hierarchy is a kind of general form of knowledge representation. Most of the previous researches on describing the concept hierarchy use tree-like crisp taxonomy. However...
Been-Chian Chien, Chih-Hung Hu, Ming-Yi Ju
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 12 months ago
No free lunch in data privacy
Differential privacy is a powerful tool for providing privacypreserving noisy query answers over statistical databases. It guarantees that the distribution of noisy query answers...
Daniel Kifer, Ashwin Machanavajjhala