We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
When students study for multiple-choice cloze tests as the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), they tend to repeatedly tackle questions of the same type. In su...
Association, or LD (linkage disequilibrium), mapping is an intensely-studied approach to gene mapping (genome-wide or in candidate regions) that is widely hoped to be able to effic...
There has been much interest in both unstructured and structured overlays recently. Unstructured overlays, like Gnutella, build a random graph and use flooding or random walks on ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Antony I. T. Rowstron