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IJCAI
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Practical Partition-Based Theorem Proving for Large Knowledge Bases
Query answering over commonsense knowledge bases typically employs a first-order logic theorem prover. While first-order inference is intractable in general, provers can often b...
Bill MacCartney, Sheila A. McIlraith, Eyal Amir, T...
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Online geometric reconstruction
We investigate a new class of geometric problems based on the idea of online error correction. Suppose one is given access to a large geometric dataset though a query mechanism; f...
Bernard Chazelle, C. Seshadhri
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Associative Search in Peer to Peer Networks: Harnessing Latent Semantics
— The success of a P2P file-sharing network highly depends on the scalability and versatility of its search mechanism. Two particularly desirable search features are scope (abil...
Edith Cohen, Amos Fiat, Haim Kaplan
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra