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ICALP
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Computational Bounds on Hierarchical Data Processing with Applications to Information Security
Motivated by the study of algorithmic problems in the domain of information security, in this paper, we study the complexity of a new class of computations over a collection of va...
Roberto Tamassia, Nikos Triandopoulos
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Max registers, counters, and monotone circuits
A method is given for constructing a max register, a linearizable, wait-free concurrent data structure that supports a write operation and a read operation that returns the larges...
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor
NIPS
2003
13 years 11 months ago
AUC Optimization vs. Error Rate Minimization
The area under an ROC curve (AUC) is a criterion used in many applications to measure the quality of a classification algorithm. However, the objective function optimized in most...
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
UNIBA-SENSE @ CLEF 2009: Robust WSD Task
This paper presents the participation of the semantic N-levels search engine SENSE at the CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Robust-WSD Task. During the participation at the same task of CLEF 2008,...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...