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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 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
14 years 3 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. ...
IR
2006
13 years 9 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
JDM
2000
128views more  JDM 2000»
13 years 8 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
14 years 25 days 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