We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Automatic recognition and formalization of constraints from free-form service requests is a challenging problem. Its resolution would go a long way toward allowing users to make r...
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...
Scaling up to the enormous and growing Internet population with unpredictable usage patterns, Ecommerce applications face severe challenges in cost and manageability, especially f...
Qiong Luo, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, C. Mohan, Hamid ...
Recognizing the alternative ways people use to reference an entity, is important for many Web applications that query structured data. In such applications, there is often a mismat...