The inference of consensus from a set of evolutionary trees is a fundamental problem in a number of fields such as biology and historical linguistics, and many models for inferrin...
—In this paper, we present fast and efficient methods for the lossy encoding of object boundaries that are given as eight-connect chain codes. We approximate the boundary by a p...
In recent years, a number of projects have turned to Wikipedia to establish large-scale taxonomies that describe orders of magnitude more entities than traditional manually built ...
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...
—Knowing accurate positions of nodes in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks is essential for a wide range of pervasive and mobile applications. However, errors are inevitable in ...