The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a technology to update a remote machine’s memory without intervention at the receiver side. We evaluate where RDMA can be usefully applied a...
Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
We present an implementation and evaluation of atomicity (also known as software transactions) for a dialect of Java. Our implementation is fundamentally different from prior work...
We describe a novel approach to machine translation that combines the strengths of the two leading corpus-based approaches: Phrasal SMT and EBMT. We use a syntactically informed d...