In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
When autonomous agents decide on their bidding strategies in real world auctions, they have a number of concerns that go beyond the models that are normally analyzed in traditiona...
Testing of database applications is of great importance. Although various studies have been conducted to investigate testing techniques for database design, relatively few efforts ...
In practice, managers often wish to ascertain that a particular engineering design of a production system meets their requirements. The future environment of this design is likely...