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CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Fact-based question decomposition for candidate answer re-ranking
Factoid questions often contain one or more assertions (facts) about their answers. However, existing question-answering (QA) systems have not investigated how the multiple facts ...
Aditya Kalyanpur, Siddharth Patwardhan, Branimir B...
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Design and Implementation of a Bare PC Email Server
— This paper presents the architecture, design and implementation of an email server that runs on a bare PC without an operating system or hard-disk. In addition to providing sta...
George H. Ford Jr., Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. ...
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IR
2006
15 years 3 months ago
Automatic question answering using the web: Beyond the Factoid
In this paper we describe and evaluate a Question Answering (QA) system that goes beyond answering factoid questions. Our approach to QA assumes no restrictions on the type of que...
Radu Soricut, Eric Brill
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JDM
2000
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15 years 3 months ago
Distributed Database Design for Mobile Geographical Applications
Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) require e cient information retrieval and updating in a dynamic environment at di erent geographical scales. ATIS applications are use...
Manhoi Choy, Mei-Po Kwan, Hong Va Leong
PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Adaptive randomized mutual exclusion in sub-logarithmic expected time
Mutual exclusion is a fundamental distributed coordination problem. Shared-memory mutual exclusion research focuses on local-spin algorithms and uses the remote memory references ...
Danny Hendler, Philipp Woelfel