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IR
2006
13 years 7 months ago
Table extraction for answer retrieval
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of many information retrieval tasks. Documents often contain tables in order to communicate d...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft, Andrew McCallum
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Webanywhere: enabling a screen reading interface for the web on any computer
People often use computers other than their own to access web content, but blind users are restricted to using computers equipped with expensive, special-purpose screen reading pr...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig Prince, Richard E. Ladner
DNIS
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Improving the Performance of Read-Only Transactions Through Speculation
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A machine learning based approach for table detection on the web
Table is a commonly used presentation scheme, especially for describing relational information. However, table understanding remains an open problem. In this paper, we consider th...
Yalin Wang, Jianying Hu
NCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Scalable Protocol for Content-Based Routing in Overlay Networks
In content networks, messages are routed on the basis of their content and the interests (subscriptions) of the message consumers. This form of routing offers an interesting alte...
Raphaël Chand, Pascal Felber