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ICDE
2008
IEEE
153views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Increasing the Expressivity of Conditional Functional Dependencies without Extra Complexity
The paper proposes an extension of CFDs [1], referred to as extended Conditional Functional Dependencies (eCFDs). In contrast to CFDs, eCFDs specify patterns of semantically relate...
Loreto Bravo, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Shuai Ma
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
ICDE
2005
IEEE
122views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Autonomous Index Optimization in XML Databases
Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
COLT
1993
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Binary Relations Using Weighted Majority Voting
In this paper we demonstrate how weighted majority voting with multiplicative weight updating can be applied to obtain robust algorithms for learning binary relations. We first pre...
Sally A. Goldman, Manfred K. Warmuth
CIMAGING
2009
265views Hardware» more  CIMAGING 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Multi-object segmentation using coupled nonparametric shape and relative pose priors
We present a new method for multi-object segmentation in a maximum a posteriori estimation framework. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighboring or coupling objec...
Mustafa Gökhan Uzunbas, Octavian Soldea, M&uu...