One may need to build a statistical parser for a new language, using only a very small labeled treebank together with raw text. We argue that bootstrapping a parser is most promis...
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
We explore a periodic analysis in the context of unobserved components time series models that decompose time series into components of interest such as trend, seasonal and irregu...
—The paper studies the problem of securely storing biometric passwords, such as fingerprints and irises. With the help of coding theory Juels and Wattenberg derived in 1999 a sc...
Violations of functional dependencies (FDs) are common in practice, often arising in the context of data integration or Web data extraction. Resolving these violations is known to...