This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second on billions of pages, making query processing a major factor in their operating costs. This has led to a lot of resear...
Abstract. Multicast is an effective means for conducting the cooperative P2P communications. This paper studies an algorithm to construct a scalable and efficient end host multica...
Abstract. In recent years a bundle of parallel and distributed algorithms for verification of finite state systems has appeared. We survey distributed-memory enumerative LTL mode...