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ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Rank Reduction for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two
Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems (LCFRSs) are a grammar formalism capable of modeling discontinuous phrases. Many parsing applications use LCFRSs where the fan-out (a measure...
Benoît Sagot, Giorgio Satta
WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
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SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms
Abstract We compare the performance of two database selection algorithms reported in the literature. Their performance is compared using a common testbed designed specifically for ...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Calla...
TEC
2010
132views more  TEC 2010»
15 years 25 days ago
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Discovering bucket orders from full rankings
Discovering a bucket order B from a collection of possibly noisy full rankings is a fundamental problem that relates to various applications involving rankings. Informally, a buck...
Jianlin Feng, Qiong Fang, Wilfred Ng